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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (27-18, second in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (29-19, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> (3-2, 2.12 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); Cubs: Ben Brown<\/a> (1-1, 1.60 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, 34 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -117, Cubs -103; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs play the Milwaukee Brewers after losing three in a row.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 18-6 at home and 29-19 overall. Cubs hitters are batting a collective .246, which ranks sixth in the NL.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 27-18 overall and 12-9 in road games. The Brewers have gone 18-6 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ian Happ<\/a> leads the Cubs with 17 extra base hits (six doubles, a triple and 10 home runs). Michael Conforto<\/a> is 9 for 27 with four doubles, two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Bauers<\/a> has a .288 batting average to lead the Brewers, and has 10 doubles and seven home runs. Jackson Chourio<\/a> is 11 for 45 with a home run and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 3-7, .196 batting average, 5.18 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 8-2, .257 batting average, 2.20 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Caleb Thielbar: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Matthew Boyd: 15-Day IL (knee), Riley Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Brandon Lockridge<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Jared Koenig<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Angel Zerpa: 15-Day IL (forearm), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep)<\/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":"Milwaukee Brewers (27-18, second in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (29-19, first in the NL Central) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,734,868,127,136,24,75686,4156,36,3875,11714,4364,7881,393,19,111,843,59,4280,4,889,27260,849],"class_list":["post-702942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-brandon-lockridge","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brewers","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-ian-happ","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jared-koenig","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-conforto","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-shelby-miller"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116600238453966908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702942","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=702942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}