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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (86-69, second in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (72-83, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: David Peterson<\/a> (8-8, 5.11 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 124 strikeouts); Reds: Rhett Lowder<\/a> (6-11, 5.79 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 98 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cubs -158, Reds +129; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

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

Cincinnati has a 38-42 record at home and a 72-83 record overall. The Reds have a 25-15 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Chicago has gone 41-36 on the road and 86-69 overall. The Cubs have a 42-15 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the 13th meeting between these teams this season. The Cubs hold an 8-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart<\/a> has 32 home runs, 61 walks and 109 RBIs while hitting .269 for the Reds. Juan Brito<\/a> is 12 for 34 with two doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nico Hoerner<\/a> has 29 doubles, a triple and eight home runs for the Cubs. Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> is 10 for 44 with a double, a triple and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 3-7, .216 batting average, 7.86 ERA, outscored by 46 runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 5-5, .253 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Reds: Julian Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Steer: 60-Day IL (wrist), Mike Toglia: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Dunn<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Cubs: Gavin Hollowell<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Phil Maton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (neck), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Trent Thornton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Riley Martin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/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 (86-69, second in the NL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (72-83, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,734,7026,138,24,4245,50,161,759,75686,515,2102,4156,23,7948,393,19,4,33,35,4397,889,6967,27260,6513,849,7985],"class_list":["post-809693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-blake-dunn","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cubs","tag-david-peterson","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-hunter-greene","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-juan-brito","tag-julian-garcia","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-phil-maton","tag-porter-hodge","tag-rhett-lowder","tag-riley-martin","tag-sal-stewart","tag-shelby-miller","tag-trent-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117302848638047077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809693","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=809693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809693\/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=809693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}