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Houston Astros<\/a> (22-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (29-23, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Peter Lambert<\/a> (2-4, 3.57 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 35 strikeouts); Cubs: Shota Imanaga (4-4, 3.37 ERA, 1.04 WHIP, 61 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -179, Astros +149; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs take on the Houston Astros looking to break their five-game home slide.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 29-23 overall and 18-10 at home. The Cubs have a 23-4 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Houston is 10-17 on the road and 22-31 overall. Astros hitters have a collective .403 slugging percentage to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Hoerner<\/a> has four home runs, 25 walks and 30 RBIs while hitting .256 for the Cubs. Alex Bregman<\/a> is 12 for 41 with a double and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 26 extra base hits (11 doubles and 15 home runs). Christian Walker is 8 for 37 with four home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 2-8, .194 batting average, 4.90 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Astros: 6-4, .201 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored by seven 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: Jose Altuve: 10-Day IL (side), Yordan Alvarez: day-to-day (back), Hunter Brown: 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), 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 (22-31, fourth in the AL West) vs. Chicago Cubs (29-23, 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":[2399],"tags":[72,5,3616,13576,3225,138,24,4245,161,4914,75686,1432,54,4156,1109,393,19,716,4,33,10195,889,27260,766,849,2264],"class_list":["post-707403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alex-bregman","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston-astros","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-josh-hader","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-peter-lambert","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-shelby-miller","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116629080853805909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707403","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=707403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707403\/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=707403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}