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Houston Astros<\/a> (21-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (29-22, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Kai-Wei Teng<\/a> (2-3, 2.61 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 30 strikeouts); Cubs: Colin Rea (4-2, 4.98 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 40 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -152, Astros +126; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs aim to break their six-game slide when they take on the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 29-22 record overall and an 18-9 record at home. The Cubs have the seventh-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.07.<\/p>\n

Houston is 9-17 on the road and 21-31 overall. The Astros have hit 61 total home runs to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Dansby Swanson<\/a> has four doubles, a triple and seven home runs for the Cubs. Michael Conforto<\/a> is 9 for 28 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 15 home runs while slugging .601. Isaac Paredes<\/a> is 8 for 39 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 2-8, .187 batting average, 5.17 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 5-5, .197 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: day-to-day (finger), 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), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Astros: Hunter Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Yainer Diaz: 10-Day IL (abdominal), Taylor Trammell: 10-Day IL (groin), Lance McCullers: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Joey Loperfido: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Jose Altuve<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Cristian Javier: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronel Blanco<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Josh Hader<\/a>: 60-Day IL (biceps), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 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":"Houston Astros (21-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Chicago Cubs (29-22, third 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":[2389],"tags":[42,5,3616,13576,3225,24,733,4914,75686,1432,139,54,3211,1328,4156,893,817,1109,393,37588,19,716,111,4,889,27260,766,849,2264],"class_list":["post-706537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh-hader","tag-justin-steele","tag-kai-wei-teng","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-michael-conforto","tag-mlb","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-shelby-miller","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116623512934719076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706537","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=706537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706537\/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=706537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}