Chicago Cubs (44-37, second in the NL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (49-29, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milwaukee; Friday, 7:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Colin Rea (5-5, 4.99 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski (8-3, 1.45 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 138 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Brewers -277, Cubs +220; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs will try to continue a four-game win streak with a victory against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milwaukee has a 25-15 record in home games and a 49-29 record overall. Brewers pitchers have a collective 3.38 ERA, which ranks second in MLB play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chicago has gone 21-20 on the road and 44-37 overall. The Cubs have the 10th-ranked team batting average in the NL at .243.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday’s game is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brice Turang has 16 doubles, three triples and 11 home runs while hitting .265 for the Brewers. William Contreras is 13 for 34 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ian Happ has 15 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs and 38 RBI for the Cubs. Pete Crow-Armstrong is 18 for 41 with two doubles, a triple and five home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 7-3, .243 batting average, 2.53 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cubs: 7-3, .271 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored opponents by 24 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Brewers: Jared Koenig: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Lockridge: 10-Day IL (knee), Brian Fitzpatrick: 60-Day IL (elbow), D.L. Hall: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), Carlos Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Coleman Crow: 15-Day IL (forearm), Logan Henderson: 15-Day IL (back), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cubs: Justin Steele: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hunter Harvey: 60-Day IL (tricep), Riley Martin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jameson Taillon: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Ben Brown: 15-Day IL (neck), Edward Cabrera: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Cade Horton: 60-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Palencia: 15-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Chicago Cubs (44-37, second in the NL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (49-29, first in the NL Central) Milwaukee; Friday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Colin Rea (5-5, 4.99 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 59 strikeouts); Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski (8-3, 1.45 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 138 strikeouts) LINE: Brewers -277, Cubs +220; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs BOTTOM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418471,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418470\/revisions\/418471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}