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New York Yankees<\/a> (62-49, second in the AL East) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (63-48, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (4-5, 3.57 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Cubs: Colin Rea (8-7, 4.67 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 83 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -131, Cubs +109; over\/under is 6 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees are looking for a series win with a victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 63-48 overall and 31-23 in home games. The Cubs have an 18-6 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

New York is 36-26 in road games and 62-49 overall. Yankees hitters have a collective .412 slugging percentage to rank ninth in the majors.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has 21 doubles, seven triples and 24 home runs while hitting .283 for the Cubs. Nico Hoerner<\/a> is 14 for 38 with two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> has 19 doubles, three triples and 31 home runs for the Yankees. Jasson Dominguez<\/a> is 9 for 40 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 6-4, .266 batting average, 2.57 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 6-4, .198 batting average, 2.17 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Gavin Hollowell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ethan Roberts: 15-Day IL (forearm), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Daniel Palencia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Phil Maton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), 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

Yankees: Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Aaron Judge: 60-Day IL (rib), Cody Bellinger: 10-Day IL (leg), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg)<\/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":"New York Yankees (62-49, second in the AL East) vs. Chicago Cubs (63-48, second in the NL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,734,731,2004,138,24,4245,1216,161,888,4914,75686,515,2281,310,4156,3289,393,19,716,4,62,33,35,4397,889,27260,849],"class_list":["post-767894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-ben-rice","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-cubs","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-shelby-miller"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117025312847485562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767894","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=767894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767894\/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=767894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}