Chicago Cubs Lineup: Employ All the Righties

Brett Taylor

Aug 07, 2016

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The Cubs now won six in a row, and today they’ll look to make it seven. Here’s the crew …

Chicago Cubs Lineup v. Oakland Athletics (Sean Manaea)

Dexter Fowler, CF
Kris Bryant, 3B
Anthony Rizzo, 1B
Ben Zobrist, RF
Addison Russell, SS
Jorge Soler, DH
Willson Contreras, C
Javy Baez, 2B
Matt Szczur, LF

[adinserter block=”1″]With lefty Sean Manaea on the mound for the A’s, the Cubs load up on righties, perhaps as extremely as we’ve seen all season. The only batter Manaea will face from the left side is Anthony Rizzo.

Jorge Soler continues his AL stint as the Cubs’ designated designated hitter. We’ll see what happens next week when things shift back to NL rules.

We’ll have a full Pre-Gamin’ for you closer to game time.

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Brett Taylor

Brett Taylor is the Lead Cubs Writer at Bleacher Nation, and you can find him on Twitter at @BleacherNation and on LinkedIn here. Brett is also the founder of Bleacher Nation, which opened up shop in 2008 as an independent blog about the Chicago Cubs. Later growing to incorporate coverage of other Chicago sports, Bleacher Nation is now one of the largest regional sports blogs on the web.

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