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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (4-5) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (4-5)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Monday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Jameson Taillon<\/a> (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, three strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (0-1, 3.86 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cubs -110, Rays -109; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays start a three-game series at home against the Chicago Cubs on Monday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay had a 77-85 record overall and a 41-40 record at home last season. The Rays batted .251 as a team in the 2025 season with a .714 OPS.<\/p>\n

Chicago went 92-70 overall and 42-39 on the road a season ago. The Cubs pitching staff averaged 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings while giving up 4.0 runs per game in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Taylor Walls: 10-Day IL (oblique)<\/p>\n

Cubs: Cade Horton: 15-Day IL (forearm), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Seiya Suzuki: 10-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Wicks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (4-5) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (4-5) St. Petersburg, Florida; Monday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,24,6925,75686,5173,875,393,19,1095,4,889,297,1956,5720,849,4274,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-666113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-edwin-uceta","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-jameson-taillon","13":"tag-jordan-wicks","14":"tag-justin-steele","15":"tag-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-porter-hodge","19":"tag-rays","20":"tag-ryan-pepiot","21":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","22":"tag-shelby-miller","23":"tag-steven-wilson","24":"tag-tampa-bay","25":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","26":"tag-tampabay","27":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356893811344768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666113","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=666113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}