Fresh off their sweep of the Astros at Wrigley, the Cubs are in another historical landmark to take on the Red Sox in Boston. It’ll be Theo Epstein’s former team against his current team, which I suppose is also his former team, though he’s no longer running baseball ops. That job belongs to Craig Breslow, who has very strong Cubs ties of his own from his time in Chicago as pitching director and assistant GM.
It’s fitting that tonight’s matchup features two pitchers currently performing at Cy Young caliber in the early going, with Shu014dta Imanaga toeing the rubber for the Cubbers.