7:15 pm
June 26

Cubs @ Dodgers

Who will WIN this matchup?

Chicago Cubs (42-34)

@ Los Angeles Dodgers (45-31)

 

Starting Pitchers:

Mills (CHC): 3-1; 5.18 ERA

Urias (LAD) 9-3; 3.99 ERA

 

Current odds:

Chicago Cubs: (+183)

Los Angeles Dodgers: (-203)

 

• Urias (9-3, 3.99 ERA) is scheduled to start on Saturday afternoon against the visiting Chicago Cubs in the third contest of their four-game series. Urias is 2-2 in his past five outings with a 6.31 ERA. Opponents have hit .317 with six home runs in that span. Urias is 1-1 with a 3.38 ERA in four regular-season appearances (two starts) against Chicago.

• The Dodgers ended a four-game losing streak with a 6-2 win on Friday night. After being on the receiving end of no-hit performance by four pitchers in the opener on Thursday, the Los Angeles offense didn’t get rolling on Friday until AJ Pollock and Max Muncy hit two-run homers in the eighth inning. The Dodgers used six relievers on Friday and could use some length from Urias, who’s coming off his shortest outing of the season. He was pulled after allowing six runs and six hits in four innings of a 6-2 loss to the San Diego Padres on Monday.

• The Cubs plan to give right-hander Alec Mills his third consecutive start and fourth overall this season. Mills (3-1, 5.18) is coming off his best start since throwing a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers in September. He threw six shutout innings in a 2-0 win against the Miami Marlins on Sunday.

• In his lone appearance against the Dodgers in his career, Mills threw two innings of relief against them on May 5. He earned the victory in a wild game in Chicago. Los Angeles scored an unearned run off Mills in both the 10th and 11th innings, but the Cubs matched the Dodgers with a run in the 10th before scoring two in the 11th of the 6-5 walk-off win.

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