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2018 MLB Season
(22-18) Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds (15-29)
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2018
Time: 7:10 PM ET
Venue: Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati, OH.
Projected Starters: Quintana vs. Romano
MLB Moneyline Odds: OFF
MLB RunLine Betting Odds: OFF
MLB Baseball Gambling Total: OFF
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Chicago Cubs
Again, Jon Lester is likely to throw one of these two games on Saturday, though the listed starters are still Hendricks and Jose Quintana.
Quintana lost the first game of the series in Atlanta this week. He went up against his countryman, Julio Teheran, who got the best of him.
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Quintana didn’t make it out of the fifth inning in that game. He gave up three home runs and walked three, plus nine hits.
The Cubs’ top six players, according to WAR, are all position players and that list doesn’t even include the struggling Anthony Rizzo.
The three starters not named Quintana and Darvish have been good, though. It’s those first two that need to get things going. If they do, consider the Cubs the NL favorites.
Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati’s offense isn’t good, but it has some guys who can do some damage and who pitchers have to at least be wary of.
The starting rotation, however, is just terrible. It’s been this way for at least the last three seasons, too, and it hasn’t improved in the slightest since.
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Tyler Mahle (92 ERA+) is the closest thing Cincinnati has to even a league-average starting pitcher. He’s 3–5 and striking out close to a batter per inning.
But nobody else, at least according to ERA+, is even close. Luis Castillo leads the staff in strikeout rate, though he isn’t significantly better at striking guys out than Mahle is, but he’s seen an uptick in hits allowed this season.
Cincinnati fans would be better off following the farm system than suffer through what the big league club has to offer right now. Until the Reds develop some pitchers, they won’t get out of the cellar in the Central.
MLB Baseball Betting Trends:
- CHC are 12-4 in their last 16 games as a favorite.
- CHC are 2-7 in Hendricks’ last 9 Fri. starts.
- Under is 12-4 in Hendricks’ last 16 on grass.
- CIN are 6-21 in their last 27 home games.
- CIN are 17-39 in their last 56 overall.
- CIN are 17-39 in their last 56 games on grass.
- Head to Head: Over is 13-3-1 in Baileys last 17 starts vs. CHC.
- Head to Head: Over is 37-15-3 in the last 55 meetings.
Free Chicago Cubs vs. Cincinnati Reds MLB Prediction: the afternoon loser gets a split.
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MLB Free Score Prediction: Chicago 4 – Cincinnati 6
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