The Milwaukee Brewers will play the Chicago Cubs in Game 3 of their series at Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon.
The Milwaukee Brewers are 63-56 this season and have lost five of their last seven games. Milwaukee has lost the first two games of this series by scores of 8-7 and 6-5. The Milwaukee pitching staff has a 3.83 ERA, a 1.24 WHIP, and a .231 opponent batting average this season. The Brewers offense has scored 539 runs with a .235 batting average and a .316 on base percentage. Willy Adames is batting .222 with 24 home runs and 69 RBI’s for the Brewers this season. The projected starter for Milwaukee is Brandon Woodruff, who is 9-3 with a 3.53 ERA and a 1.15 WHIP over 97 innings pitched this season.
The Chicago Cubs are 52-67 this season and have won five games in a row. Prior to winning the first two games of this series Chicago defeated Baltimore in a makeup game by a score of 3-2. The Chicago pitching staff has a 4.21 ERA, a 1.32 WHIP, and a .248 opponent batting average. The Cubs offense has scored 501 runs with a .244 batting average and a .317 on base percentage this year. Wilson Contreras is batting .250 with 20 home runs and 52 RBI’s for the Cubs this season. The projected starter for Chicago is Justin Steele, who is 4-7 with a 3.43 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP over 107.2 innings pitched this season.
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