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San Diego Padres<\/a> (43-41, second in the NL West) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (48-38, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Walker Buehler<\/a> (5-3, 3.81 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Cubs: Colin Rea (5-5, 4.80 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 63 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -158, Padres +129; over\/under is 11 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres, on a four-game losing streak, take on the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 25-17 in home games and 48-38 overall. The Cubs have the third-best team on-base percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .338.<\/p>\n

San Diego has a 43-41 record overall and a 20-20 record on the road. The Padres have a 20-31 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Cubs hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Dansby Swanson<\/a> has 10 doubles, two triples and 13 home runs for the Cubs. Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> is 11 for 38 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Xander Bogaerts<\/a> has five doubles and eight home runs for the Padres. Manny Machado<\/a> is 11 for 36 with four doubles and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 8-2, .239 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Padres: 5-5, .256 batting average, 4.14 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (forearm), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Ben Brown<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Padres: David Morgan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Luis Campusano<\/a>: 10-Day IL (toe), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (knee), German Marquez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Lucas Giolito: 15-Day IL (elbow), Matt Waldron<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 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":"San Diego Padres (43-41, second in the NL West) vs. Chicago Cubs (48-38, second in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,734,138,24,4245,161,888,733,784,4914,75686,4156,393,12913,19,1527,716,2282,4,35,4397,889,1495,27260,18,849,115,1821],"class_list":["post-740218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-david-morgan","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-justin-steele","tag-luis-campusano","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manny-machado","tag-matt-shaw","tag-matt-waldron","tag-mlb","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-riley-martin","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shelby-miller","tag-walker-buehler","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116844236871620843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740218","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=740218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}