For its best start for a season since 2016, the Chicago cubs will face Cincinnati Reds in a three-game rubber match on Sunday afternoon.
Chicago sits at the National League Central Standing 36-22 after a 2–0 win over Reds on Saturday. Drew Pomeranz, Ben Brown, Brad Keller and Daniel Palansia jointly jointly jointly jointly jointly combined to win the cubs to win the fifth matches.
Seya Suzuki extended his hitting streak to 11 matches in the eighth innings, when he doubled to score a run in one run. Suzuki is batting .395 (17 -for -43) during his line and has doubled in seven of his last eight matches.
Fielder Pete Crow-Armestrong of the cub center attracted two walks and turned into a defensive game of the game with one in the ninth innings, when he ran to make diving catch in the center on the liner of TJ Freedal.
“The corner people are playing next to him, you just go back to him, because you know that he is going to fly after it and trying to do a drama,” the cub said Fielder Ian Hap. “There is a huge place.”
This season, during the ninth closure of this season, Cincinnati was held for a pair of Besorners.
Reds manager Terry Frankona is using patience with the second Basman Matt Macqueline, who is hitting .178 after going for 0 -for -3 on Saturday.
Frankona said, “One of the worst things when a man is not killing and you see him to the field,” Frankona said. “You see them in the dugout, and they are beating their helmets repeatedly. He doesn’t do it. He plays the game.”
Reds Left Fielder is playing without Austin Hayes, who was placed on Friday with a left leg fusion on the 10-day injured list. Gavin Lux began in the left area on Saturday and went to 0 -for -2 with a walk.
The Sunday pitching match will feature a pair of The Right-Handers, with Reds Nick Martinez (3-5, 3.48 ERA) facing Jameson Talel of Chicago (4-3, 3.86).
34-year-old Martinez started his sixth consecutive quality last Monday, scoring three runs in seven innings in a 7–4 victory over the Cansus City Royals.
“You see him pitching there and that’s a ball,” said Frankona. “He likes to compete, and I really respect it. You will beat him. And sometimes it happens. But he gives you everything that he has.”
Hap is 2-for-11 (.182) against Martinez, which is 2–1 with 2.25 ERA in eight career games (two start) vs. cubs.
The 33 -year -old Talel has allowed a total of two runs in 13 1/3 innings in his last two outings. He played 6 1/3 innings of one run ball in a 3–1 win over Colorado Rockies last Monday.
Cubes manager Craig Counsel said, “He just did a good job what he is good.” “Attack on the strike zone, fill the strike zone and move forward. He got some early contact and some weak contact. He picked well.”
Fridal is 4-for-13 (.308) with two homes against Talel, 6-6 with 4.79 ERAs in 18 careers.
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