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New York Mets<\/a> (7-12, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (9-9, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Friday, 2:20 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Kodai Senga (0-2, 7.07 ERA, 1.71 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Cubs: Edward Cabrera<\/a> (1-0, 1.62 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -140, Mets +117; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets visit the Chicago Cubs looking to break a three-game road skid.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 9-9 record overall and a 4-5 record at home. The Cubs have gone 8-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

New York has a 4-6 record in road games and a 7-12 record overall. The Mets have gone 2-1 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hoerner<\/a> has two home runs, nine walks and 18 RBIs while hitting .324 for the Cubs. Carson Kelly<\/a> is 12 for 33 with three doubles, a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Luis Robert<\/a> has two home runs for the Mets. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 9 for 44 with a double and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 5-5, .277 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 2-8, .201 batting average, 5.01 ERA, outscored by 28 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (finger), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 15-Day IL (right tricep inflammation), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Matthew Boyd: 15-Day IL (biceps), Cade Horton: 15-Day IL (forearm), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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

Mets: Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"New York Mets (7-12, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs (9-9, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,34,138,24,4245,161,4914,75686,227,4156,15622,875,134,25115,393,999,19,4,61,33,4397,889,849],"class_list":{"0":"post-677471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-carson-kelly","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cubs","14":"tag-edward-cabrera","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-francisco-lindor","17":"tag-hunter-harvey","18":"tag-jared-young","19":"tag-jordan-wicks","20":"tag-juan-soto","21":"tag-justin-hagenman","22":"tag-justin-steele","23":"tag-luis-robert-jr","24":"tag-major-league-baseball","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-new-york-mets","27":"tag-nico-hoerner","28":"tag-phil-maton","29":"tag-porter-hodge","30":"tag-shelby-miller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116419068224660954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677471","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=677471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677471\/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=677471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}