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New York Mets<\/a> (7-13, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (10-9, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (1-1, 3.86 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 25 strikeouts); Cubs: Jameson Taillon<\/a> (0-1, 4.86 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 17 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -119, Mets -100; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets, on a nine-game losing streak, take on the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 10-9 overall and 5-5 at home. The Cubs have the third-best team on-base percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .346.<\/p>\n

New York has a 4-7 record in road games and a 7-13 record overall. The Mets have a 4-1 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hoerner<\/a> has seven doubles, three home runs and 20 RBIs for the Cubs. Moises Ballesteros<\/a> is 12 for 22 with a double, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Francisco Alvarez<\/a> leads the Mets with a .294 batting average, and has a double, four home runs, eight walks and five RBIs. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 11 for 43 with a home run and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 6-4, .294 batting average, 4.20 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 1-9, .206 batting average, 6.00 ERA, outscored by 39 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Matthew Boyd: 15-Day IL (biceps), Jordan Wicks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 15-Day IL (tricep), Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (finger), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton: 15-Day IL (forearm), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Mets: Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), 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 (7-13, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs (10-9, fifth in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,888,75686,1347,227,753,4156,5173,15622,875,134,25115,393,19,4,1896,61,33,4397,889,849],"class_list":["post-678268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jameson-taillon","tag-jared-young","tag-jordan-wicks","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-moises-ballesteros","tag-new-york-mets","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-shelby-miller"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116425084317812906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678268","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=678268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}