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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (49-50, third in the AL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (55-43, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Zebby Matthews<\/a> (4-6, 4.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Cubs: Shota Imanaga (5-8, 4.17 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 105 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -171, Twins +140; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs take on the Minnesota Twins after Nico Hoerner<\/a> had four hits against the Twins on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 28-20 at home and 55-43 overall. The Cubs have gone 14-5 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 23-25 record on the road and a 49-50 record overall. The Twins have the seventh-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .414.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has 15 doubles, four triples and 21 home runs while hitting .284 for the Cubs. Michael Conforto<\/a> is 9 for 32 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 6-4, .238 batting average, 3.68 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 7-3, .262 batting average, 3.34 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

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

Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Connor Prielipp: 15-Day IL (finger), Marco Raya: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Pablo Lopez<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (49-50, third in the AL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (55-43, second in the NL Central) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[8934,5,734,2223,24,9707,888,3916,4914,75686,4156,393,19,716,111,5158,822,60,3190,4,33,1997,35,889,27260,849,148,767],"class_list":["post-755750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-byron-buxton","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cole-sands","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-david-festa","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-michael-conforto","tag-mick-abel","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-shelby-miller","tag-twins","tag-zebby-matthews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116945663015159635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755750","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=755750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}