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Chicago Cubs<\/a> (92-70, second in the NL Central during the regular season) vs. Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (97-65, first in the NL Central during the regular season)<\/p>\n Milwaukee; Saturday, 2:08 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: TBD; Brewers: Freddy Peralta<\/a> (17-6, 2.70 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 204 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -148, Cubs +124; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs play in Game 1 of the NLDS.<\/p>\n Milwaukee has gone 52-29 in home games and 97-65 overall. Brewers hitters have a collective .332 on-base percentage, the second-best percentage in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n Chicago has a 92-70 record overall and a 42-39 record in road games. The Cubs have the seventh-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .320.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the 14th meeting between these teams this season. The Cubs are up 7-6 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Christian Yelich leads the Brewers with 29 home runs while slugging .452. Danny Jansen<\/a> is 7 for 20 with three home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> has 37 doubles, four triples, 31 home runs and 95 RBIs for the Cubs. Seiya Suzuki<\/a> is 11 for 37 with three doubles and six home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 4-6, .221 batting average, 3.23 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n Cubs: 6-4, .260 batting average, 2.53 ERA, outscored opponents by 19 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Brewers: William Contreras<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Jose Quintana<\/a>: 15-Day IL (calf), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Logan Henderson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Garrett Mitchell<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Connor Thomas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Cubs: Cade Horton<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ribs), Owen Caissie<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Ryan Brasier<\/a>: 15-Day IL (groin), Miguel Amaya<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Justin Steele<\/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 \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n \n recommended\n <\/p>\n Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Chicago Cubs (92-70, second in the NL Central during the regular season) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (97-65,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-187005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}