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Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (16-14, third in the NL West) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (19-12, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen<\/a> (1-1, 3.14 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Cubs: Colin Rea<\/a> (3-1, 4.61 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 24 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Cubs -140, Diamondbacks +118; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs host the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 11-5 in home games and 19-12 overall. The Cubs are 16-5 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Arizona has gone 7-8 in road games and 16-14 overall. The Diamondbacks are 10-5 in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hoerner<\/a> has four home runs, 13 walks and 26 RBIs while hitting .291 for the Cubs. Seiya Suzuki<\/a> is 14 for 37 with five home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Nolan Arenado<\/a> has two doubles and five home runs for the Diamondbacks. Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> is 15 for 40 with a double, a triple and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 7-3, .281 batting average, 4.91 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 4-6, .271 batting average, 7.47 ERA, outscored by 23 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Riley Martin: 15-Day IL (elbow), Dansby Swanson<\/a>: day-to-day (glute), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 15-Day IL (tricep), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Caleb Thielbar<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Jordan Wicks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ethan Roberts<\/a>: 15-Day IL (finger), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Cade Horton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

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Diamondbacks: Carlos Santana<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Gabriel Moreno<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Jordan Lawlar<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), Tyler Locklear<\/a>: 10-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cristian Mena<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pavin Smith<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks (16-14, third in the NL West) vs. Chicago Cubs (19-12, second in the NL Central) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[1118,13491,22,5,7905,735,7581,1717,138,24,4245,158,97,18794,161,888,733,881,5993,4156,16566,543,875,651,393,4,33,1028,352,889,105,849,12345,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-687393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-a-j-puk","9":"tag-andrew-saalfrank","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-blake-walston","13":"tag-cade-horton","14":"tag-caleb-thielbar","15":"tag-carlos-santana","16":"tag-chicago","17":"tag-chicago-cubs","18":"tag-chicagocubs","19":"tag-colin-rea","20":"tag-corbin-burnes","21":"tag-cristian-mena","22":"tag-cubs","23":"tag-daniel-palencia","24":"tag-dansby-swanson","25":"tag-ethan-roberts","26":"tag-gabriel-moreno","27":"tag-hunter-harvey","28":"tag-ildemaro-vargas","29":"tag-jordan-lawlar","30":"tag-jordan-wicks","31":"tag-justin-martinez","32":"tag-justin-steele","33":"tag-mlb","34":"tag-nico-hoerner","35":"tag-nolan-arenado","36":"tag-pavin-smith","37":"tag-porter-hodge","38":"tag-seiya-suzuki","39":"tag-shelby-miller","40":"tag-tyler-locklear","41":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687393","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=687393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}