Early this afternoon, the Cubs will try to complete their sweep of the Reds at Great American Ballpark, continuing a relative hot stretch of baseball (albeit against some mediocre teams). They’ve got three straight wins coming into this finale, and have been doing more winning than losing for the past three weeks:
Keegan Thompson is taking the ball in this one, coming off a really interesting start against the Nationals. On the one hand, he got excellent results with just 1 earned run and no walks over 6.0 innings pitched. But on the other, he was allowing a TON of hard contact in the air and velocity that was down about a full MPH. It was actually pretty concerning and something I’ll be watching closely this afternoon.
Hopefully, it was just a fluke and not because he’s currently at 99.0 IP, more than 30 more innings than he’s ever thrown in a single season.
Justin Dunn, the Reds 26-year-old righty, is making just his second big league start of the season and 10th start of the year. Meanwhile, Joey Votto is making a very special start of his own:
Go Cubs.
Game Info
Chicago Cubs (47-65) at Cincinnati Reds (44-68) – Saturday, August 14 at 12:40 CT on MARQ, 670 The Score
Starting Pitchers
Reds: Justin Dunn, RHP
Cubs: Keegan Thompson, RHP
Chicago Cubs (Lineup Discussion):
- Rafael Ortega, CF
- Ian Happ, LF
- Seiya Suzuki, RF
- Franmil Reyes, DH
- Nico Hoerner, SS
- Patrick Wisdom, 1B
- Zach McKinstry, 2B
- Yan Gomes, C
- Chris Morel, 3B
Cincinnati Reds:
- Jake Fraley, DH
- Nick Senzel, CF
- Kyler Farmer, 3B
- Joey Votto, 1B
- Donovan Solano, 2B
- Albert Almora Jr., LF
- Aristides Aquino, RF
- Jose Barrero, SS
- Austin Romine, C