{"id":695349,"date":"2026-06-10T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:42:09","slug":"colorado-rockies-and-chicago-cubs-meet-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695349\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs meet in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Cubs<\/a> (34-33, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies<\/a> (25-42, fifth in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Denver; Wednesday, 8:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Shota Imanaga<\/a> (4-6, 4.74 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 74 strikeouts); Rockies: Michael Lorenzen<\/a> (2-8, 8.01 ERA, 2.00 WHIP, 48 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

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LINE: Cubs -168, Rockies +141; over\/under is 12 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Rockies take a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

Colorado<\/a> has a 25-42 record overall and a 13-19 record in home games. The Rockies have gone 14-31 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 14-18 record on the road and a 34-33 record overall. The Cubs have gone 27-6 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Hunter Goodman<\/a> leads the Rockies with 18 home runs while slugging .526. Jake McCarthy<\/a> is 14 for 44 with four doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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Nico Hoerner<\/a> has four home runs, 30 walks and 33 RBIs while hitting .247 for the Cubs. Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> is 17 for 43 with two doubles, five home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockies: 5-5, .282 batting average, 7.70 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n

Cubs: 3-7, .244 batting average, 5.20 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockies: Mickey Moniak<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Jimmy Herget<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Freeman<\/a>: 7-Day IL (concussion), Victor Vodnik<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brenton Doyle<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Tanner Gordon: 15-Day IL (hip), Jordan Beck<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Kris Bryant<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Welinton Herrera: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jose Quintana<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), McCade Brown<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Chase Dollander<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pierson Ohl<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), RJ Petit: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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Cubs: Jameson Taillon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Justin Steele<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Christopher Austin: 60-Day IL (knee), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 60-Day IL (tricep), Matthew Boyd<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Riley Martin: 15-Day IL (elbow), Porter Hodge<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Shelby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cade Horton<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs (34-33, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Colorado Rockies (25-42, fifth in the NL West) Denver;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41706,89733,83505,479,3832,1230,41709,183188,193021,17878,27361,89140,22271,17880,145902,99195,145108,23555,98627,363,25922,4261,202804,97887,46560,107057,99,27359,7948,187472,220604],"class_list":["post-695349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-cade-horton","tag-chase-dollander","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-hunter-harvey","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jameson-taillon","tag-jimmy-herget","tag-jordan-beck","tag-jose-quintana","tag-justin-steele","tag-kris-bryant","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-mccade-brown","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-pierson-ohl","tag-porter-hodge","tag-shelby-miller","tag-shota-imanaga","tag-sports","tag-tanner-gordon","tag-the-rockies","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-victor-vodnik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}