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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (4-6) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (5-5)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Javier Assad<\/a> (0-0); Rays: Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (0-0, 1.80 ERA, 0.70 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rays -137, Cubs +116; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays bring a 1-0 advantage into the next game of the series against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay went 77-85 overall and 41-40 in home games a season ago. The Rays slugged .401 as a team in the 2025 season while hitting 1.1 home runs per game.<\/p>\n

Chicago went 92-70 overall and 42-39 in road games a season ago. The Cubs averaged 8.5 hits per game last season while batting a collective .249 and slugging .430.<\/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)<\/p>\n

Cubs: Matthew Boyd: 15-Day IL (biceps), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (4-6) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (5-5) St. Petersburg, Florida; Tuesday, 6:40 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":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,24,1999,6925,75686,159,875,393,19,1095,4,889,297,1956,849,4274,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-668025","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-drew-rasmussen","11":"tag-edwin-uceta","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-javier-assad","14":"tag-jordan-wicks","15":"tag-justin-steele","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-porter-hodge","20":"tag-rays","21":"tag-ryan-pepiot","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\/116362618838076365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668025","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=668025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668025\/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=668025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}