{"id":806330,"date":"2026-09-16T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/806330\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:48:29","slug":"cubs-and-braves-meet-winner-claims-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/806330\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs and Braves meet, winner claims 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Braves<\/a> (89-63, first in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs<\/a> (84-68, second in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: JR Ritchie<\/a> (1-2, 4.50 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Cubs: Shota Imanaga (10-10, 3.88 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 156 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -144, Braves +119; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves meet on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 84-68 overall and 44-33 at home. The Cubs are 67-14 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has gone 38-36 on the road and 89-63 overall. The Braves have gone 63-23 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

The teams play Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Braves are ahead 3-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has 42 home runs, 77 walks and 102 RBIs while hitting .279 for the Cubs. Nico Hoerner<\/a> is 12 for 41 with a double and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Matt Olson<\/a> leads the Braves with 39 home runs while slugging .505. Drake Baldwin<\/a> is 13 for 42 with three doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cubs: 4-6, .246 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Braves: 5-5, .241 batting average, 4.00 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cubs: Ben Brown: 60-Day IL (neck), Gavin Hollowell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Dansby Swanson: 10-Day IL (side), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Trent Thornton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

Braves: Reynaldo Lopez: 15-Day IL (right shoulder), Lane Thomas<\/a>: 10-Day IL (side), Bryce Elder: 15-Day IL (knee), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Suarez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Strider: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Atlanta Braves (89-63, first in the NL East) vs. Chicago Cubs (84-68, second in the NL Central) Chicago;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,24,5931,75686,515,4156,10367,28293,393,3540,19,541,4,33,35,4397,889,27260,80,849,659,7985],"class_list":["post-806330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-jr-ritchie","tag-justin-steele","tag-lane-thomas","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-olson","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-riley-martin","tag-robert-suarez","tag-shelby-miller","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-trent-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117279857302873637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806330","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=806330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806330\/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=806330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}