Chicago Cubs (66-48, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (58-58, fourth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Friday, 8:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Matthew Boyd (11-4, 2.34 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 118 strikeouts); Cardinals: Michael McGreevy (3-2, 5.08 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Cubs -154, Cardinals +128; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Chicago Cubs on Friday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n St. Louis is 32-24 at home and 58-58 overall. The Cardinals have the 10th-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.22.<\/p>\n Chicago is 66-48 overall and 30-26 on the road. The Cubs have a 28-10 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n The teams square off Friday for the eighth time this season. The Cubs are up 4-3 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson has 19 doubles, 14 home runs and 50 RBIs while hitting .279 for the Cardinals. Masyn Winn is 11 for 37 with three doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Kyle Tucker has 21 doubles, four triples and 18 home runs for the Cubs. Nico Hoerner is 13 for 37 with a double and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 4-6, .223 batting average, 4.76 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n Cubs: 5-5, .227 batting average, 3.89 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n INJURIES: Cardinals: Nolan Arenado: 10-Day IL (shoulder), John King: 15-Day IL (oblique), Zack Thompson: 60-Day IL (lat)<\/p>\n Cubs: Mike Soroka: day-to-day (shoulder), Miguel Amaya: 60-Day IL (oblique), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (calf), Eli Morgan: 60-Day IL (elbow), Javier Assad: 60-Day IL (oblique), Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (66-48, second in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (58-58, fourth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[1894,5,138,24,4245,161,410,5173,159,393,29,1553,2000,4392,728,5860,4,33,376,1028,673,67,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-233396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-alec-burleson","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-eli-morgan","15":"tag-jameson-taillon","16":"tag-javier-assad","17":"tag-justin-steele","18":"tag-kyle-tucker","19":"tag-masyn-winn","20":"tag-matthew-boyd","21":"tag-michael-mcgreevy","22":"tag-miguel-amaya","23":"tag-mike-soroka","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-nico-hoerner","26":"tag-nl-central","27":"tag-nolan-arenado","28":"tag-st-louis","29":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","30":"tag-zack-thompson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114992362638984533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}