Officially, Shōta Imanaga left last night’s start with cramping in both legs – ironically, it makes you feel less worried when it’s both legs than if it were just one – and the talk after the game sounded very encouraging.

So it sounds like it wasn’t even full on cramping setting in, just the first inkling that it was coming. Definitely better to get out of there and start recovering than try to push through it in a 4-0 game (that became a 9-0 win).

MORE: The Shōta Imanaga Update Was Good News (via Brett Taylor):

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