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<\/a>Atlanta scored a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night, as second baseman Dan Uggla supplied the key hit with a two-run single in the top of the eighth inning.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re going to have these low-scoring games,\u201d stated Uggla after the contest.\u00a0 The Braves are still a dismal 3-10 this year when scoring three runs or fewer.\u00a0 Offensively, the club has been limited to just four runs in the first two games of this series, which is a far cry from the 44 runs it totaled in three games against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.\u00a0 Atlanta is 4-1 as a road favorite of -125 to -150 this year, with the \u201cover\u201d going 4-1 in those contests.<\/p>\n
Braves starting pitcher Tim Hudson (1-0, 6.55 ERA) has led the club to wins in both of his starts, but he didn\u2019t factor into the decision of a 9-8 road win over the Rockies last time out. He allowed seven runs (six earned) and six hits over six frames in that contest.\u00a0 The right-hander will be facing the Cubs for the sixth time in this career, bringing in a perfect 2-0 mark and 3.94 ERA, but hasn\u2019t faced them since 2008.<\/p>\n
Chicago had its two-game win streak snapped last night and the \u201cunder\u201d has cashed in six of the team\u2019s last seven games overall.\u00a0 The Cubs have still managed to post a 9-7 record in their last 16 ames, as the pitching staff came into Tuesday\u2019s game with a 2.64 ERA since April 21, which was the fourth-best mark in baseball over that span.\u00a0 Chicago is 7-6 as a home underdog of +100 to +125 this season, with the \u201cunder\u201d being 8-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n
Cubs starting pitcher Paul Maholm (3-2, 5.13 ERA) will try to win his fourth straight outing, coming off a 5-4 home victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing just a single run and three hits over six frames.\u00a0 The left-hander has tallied a 2-1 mark and 4.50 ERA in three home outings.\u00a0 In six career starts versus the Braves, Maholm has compiled an even 1-1 record and 1.58 ERA.<\/p>\n
Bettors will likely back the Cubs due to their 7-0 record following a loss, while the Braves are 4-5 in day games this year.<\/p>\n
Make sure to check out our Major League Baseball picks<\/a> all season long and get the most up-to-date betting odds at Bookmaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Atlanta Braves (19-12) and Chicago Cubs (12-18) will close out a three-game National League series on Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley Field, with the first pitch scheduled for 2:20 ET Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs\u00a0 Atlanta scored a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night, as second baseman Dan Uggla supplied the key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":15577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[243,180,727,1525,1651,1637],"class_list":["post-23010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-national-league","tag-paul-maholm","tag-tim-hudson","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23011,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23010\/revisions\/23011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}