Baseball: Cubs’ Imanaga snaps Padres’ perfect start at 7 games

Shota Imanaga held the San Diego Padres to a run over 7-1/3 innings and snapped their seven-game season-opening winning streak as the Chicago Cubs prevailed 3-1 for their fourth straight victory. The Cubs’ Opening Day starter in Tokyo last month, Imanaga (2-0) won both his starts since returning to the United States. His latest 91-pitch outing, in which he threw 68 strikes, propelled the Cubs to a win in their first game of the season at their ballpark Wrigley Field. Martin Maldonado’s third-inning solo home run tied the game for the Padres off Imanaga, who also gave up a double in the fourth …

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