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New York Mets<\/a> (7-14, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (11-9, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Tobias Myers<\/a> (0-1, 3.46 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Cubs: Javier Assad<\/a> (1-1, 8.10 ERA, 1.60 WHIP, six strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -132, Mets +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Chicago is 6-5 at home and 11-9 overall. Cubs hitters have a collective .402 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the NL.<\/p>\n

New York has a 7-14 record overall and a 4-8 record in road games. The Mets have gone 1-4 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Carson Kelly<\/a> has three doubles and two home runs for the Cubs. Nico Hoerner<\/a> is 17 for 47 with two doubles and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Francisco Alvarez<\/a> leads the Mets with a .273 batting average, and has a double, four home runs, eight walks and five RBIs. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 11 for 42 with a home run and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 7-3, .299 batting average, 3.76 ERA, outscored opponents by 28 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 0-10, .203 batting average, 6.25 ERA, outscored by 42 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), 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), 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: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), 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 (7-14, fifth in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs (11-9, 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":[5,34,138,24,4245,161,888,75686,1347,227,4156,15622,159,875,120,134,25115,393,19,4,61,33,4397,889,849,2006],"class_list":{"0":"post-678985","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-daniel-palencia","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-francisco-alvarez","17":"tag-francisco-lindor","18":"tag-hunter-harvey","19":"tag-jared-young","20":"tag-javier-assad","21":"tag-jordan-wicks","22":"tag-jorge-polanco","23":"tag-juan-soto","24":"tag-justin-hagenman","25":"tag-justin-steele","26":"tag-major-league-baseball","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-new-york-mets","29":"tag-nico-hoerner","30":"tag-phil-maton","31":"tag-porter-hodge","32":"tag-shelby-miller","33":"tag-tobias-myers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116430630263589107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678985","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=678985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678985\/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=678985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}