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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (79-62, second in the NL Central) vs. Miami Marlins<\/a> (71-70, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Miami; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Shota Imanaga (8-10, 4.01 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 148 strikeouts); Marlins: Janson Junk (6-8, 4.11 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 70 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -135, Marlins +111; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins host the Chicago Cubs on Friday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Miami is 71-70 overall and 42-27 at home. The Marlins are 53-24 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 79-62 record overall and a 38-31 record in road games. Cubs pitchers have a collective 4.19 ERA, which ranks ninth in the NL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Heriberto Hernandez<\/a> is third on the Marlins with 40 extra base hits (16 doubles, a triple and 23 home runs). Kyle Stowers<\/a> is 10 for 33 with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has 27 doubles, seven triples and 39 home runs for the Cubs. Tyrone Taylor<\/a> is 16 for 29 with four doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Marlins: 4-6, .231 batting average, 4.64 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 4-6, .270 batting average, 5.00 ERA, outscored opponents by 18 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Marlins: Kyle Stowers: day-to-day (hamstring), Xavier Edwards<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Max Meyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Pete Fairbanks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (nerve), William Kempner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cubs: Edward Cabrera<\/a>: 15-Day IL (blister), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Pedro Ramirez<\/a>: day-to-day (back), Jacob Webb<\/a>: day-to-day (forearm), Gavin Hollowell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Dansby Swanson: 10-Day IL (side), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (neck), Phil Maton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), 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

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (79-62, second in the NL Central) vs. Miami Marlins (71-70, third in the NL East) Miami;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,734,24,4914,75686,515,17906,4156,442,393,1388,19,1816,1714,778,58,4171,4,45122,35,848,4397,889,27260,7729,849,1444,40190,6878],"class_list":["post-796302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jacob-webb","tag-justin-steele","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-pedro-ramirez","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-shelby-miller","tag-tyrone-taylor","tag-william-kempner","tag-xavier-edwards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117211992162315999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796302","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=796302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796302\/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=796302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}