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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (76-57, second in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (70-63, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Wednesday, 3:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Matthew Boyd (8-2, 4.15 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 71 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a> (13-4, 2.61 ERA, 1.21 WHIP, 110 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -108, Diamondbacks -105; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Both the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs are looking for a series win with a victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 70-63 overall and 39-29 in home games. The Diamondbacks have the 10th-ranked team batting average in the NL at .244.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 76-57 record overall and a 38-30 record on the road. The Cubs have gone 61-18 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Cubs are ahead 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Arenado<\/a> leads the Diamondbacks with 21 home runs while slugging .435. Gabriel Moreno<\/a> is 11 for 37 with two home runs and 11 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> leads the Cubs with a .276 batting average, and has 26 doubles, seven triples, 33 home runs, 71 walks and 83 RBIs. Pedro Ramirez<\/a> is 11 for 39 with a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 5-5, .249 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 4-6, .261 batting average, 4.52 ERA, outscored opponents by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Tommy Troy: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (arm), Ketel Marte<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Lourdes Gurriel<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (adductor), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Zac Gallen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Cubs: Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (neck), Hoby Milner: 15-Day IL (appendicitis), Gavin Hollowell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Matt Shaw<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (blister), Phil Maton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Dansby Swanson: 10-Day IL (side), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), Shelby Miller<\/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":"Chicago Cubs (76-57, second in the NL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (70-63, third in the NL West) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[13491,22,5,734,7905,138,24,4245,97,161,756,4914,75686,5993,515,4156,393,729,1447,19,716,4,1028,45122,35,4397,889,27260,655,5938,849,86],"class_list":["post-788728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-blake-walston","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-cubs","tag-eduardo-rodriguez","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-moreno","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-justin-steele","tag-ketel-marte","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-shaw","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-pedro-ramirez","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-shelby-miller","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788728","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=788728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}