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Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (20-14, second in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (22-12, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Reds: Chase Petty<\/a> (0-0); Cubs: Edward Cabrera<\/a> (3-0, 3.06 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 29 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Cubs -209, Reds +173; over\/under is 11 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Chicago has a 22-12 record overall and a 14-5 record at home. The Cubs are 18-5 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati<\/a> has a 20-14 record overall and a 10-6 record on the road. The Reds have a 9-3 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hoerner<\/a> has 10 doubles, four home runs and 26 RBIs for the Cubs. Seiya Suzuki<\/a> is 14 for 39 with a double, four home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Elly De La Cruz<\/a> has a .271 batting average to lead the Reds, and has six doubles and 10 home runs. Nathaniel Lowe<\/a> is 11 for 36 with five home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 7-3, .264 batting average, 5.11 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Reds: 4-6, .239 batting average, 7.12 ERA, outscored by 25 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Ethan Roberts<\/a>: 15-Day IL (finger), Riley Martin: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

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Reds: Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Caleb Ferguson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Nick Lodolo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (finger), Eugenio Suarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Hunter Greene<\/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":"Cincinnati Reds (20-14, second in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (22-12, first in the NL Central) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,12054,735,9097,7581,1418,24,535,50,4259,4914,1177,881,92,2102,4156,875,393,4,495,1331,33,889,536,105,849],"class_list":["post-690035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-cade-horton","tag-caleb-ferguson","tag-caleb-thielbar","tag-chase-petty","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-ethan-roberts","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-hunter-greene","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jordan-wicks","tag-justin-steele","tag-mlb","tag-nathaniel-lowe","tag-nick-lodolo","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-porter-hodge","tag-reds","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-shelby-miller"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116516047001942965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690035","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=690035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690035\/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=690035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}