Cubs starting pitcher Carlos Silva is 9-2 with a 2.96 ERA in 16 starts this season, as he snapped a two-game losing streak last time out.\u00a0 He allowed two runs and four hits over six innings in a 6-4 road victory over the Diamondbacks.\u00a0 The right-hander has managed to walk just 16 batters and strike out 70 in 100.1 innings.\u00a0 Silva brings a perfect 5-0 mark and 3.05 ERA on the road this season, allowing opponents to hit just .213 against him.\u00a0 In seven career outings (two starts), he is a spotless 3-0 with a 4.08 ERA, including a 1-0 record and 3.52 ERA in three outings at Dodger Stadium.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Los Angeles finds itself with a 16-11 record against NL Central opponents and the team\u2019s 44-28 overall mark against National League opponents is the best in the league by an NL club this season.\u00a0 The Dodgers have bounced back well following a loss this season, producing a 22-16 record (+250) and 109-80 mark over the last three seasons (+1,350).\u00a0 The club will be excited to face a right-handed starter this evening, after being shutdown by a southpaw on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Los Angeles has a 36-25 record against righties (+770), producing 5.0 runs per game and hitting for a combined .276 average against them.\u00a0 Shortstop Rafael Furcal has been the spark plug for the offense, scoring a run in 15 of his last 16 games.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Dodgers starting pitcher Vicente Padilla is 3-2 with a 4.72 ERA in eight starts this season and is coming in on a two-game winning streak.\u00a0 Over those outings against San Francisco and Florida, he has allowed just three earned runs and nine hits over 13.2 innings while striking out 14 and walking just a single batter.\u00a0 Padilla is 2-1 with a 3.05 ERA in three home starts, managing to strike out 23 batters and walk just three in 20.2 frames.\u00a0 In 15 career appearances (six starts) against the Cubs, he is 3-4 with a 4.79 ERA.\u00a0 He last started against Chicago on June 21, 2007 as a member of the Texas Rangers, giving up four runs in four innings and took a no-decision.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Bettors may want to play the total in this ESPN matchup due to players focusing on vacation plans with this being the final game of the weekend.\u00a0 The Cubs are 12-25 O\/U in night games this season, while the under is 10-4-1 in the last 15 meetings between the clubs.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Both teams may show impatience at the plate with the All-Star break looming. Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers Chicago has won two of the first three games on its current road trip, averaging 6.5 runs in the process.\u00a0 The Cubs entered the game ranked 14th in the National League in runs scored and had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[2197,1509,180,429,2196,2161],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-aramis-ramirez","tag-carlos-silva","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-rafael-furcal","tag-vicente-padilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","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=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/matt-kemp-dodgers-44-150x150.jpg\")
Chicago has won two of the first three games on its current road trip, averaging 6.5 runs in the process.\u00a0 The Cubs entered the game ranked 14th in the National League in runs scored and had scored three or fewer runs in 14 of their last 20 games before Saturday\u2019s 7-3 victory.\u00a0 \u201cFinally,\u201d said third baseman Aramis Ramirez.\u00a0 \u201cWe just have to come back after the break and keep doing what we\u2019re doing now.\u201d\u00a0 Ramirez has posted five consecutive multi-hit games to raise his season average from .178 to .209.\u00a0 The club is 11-4 against NL West competition this season, while going 28-45 against all other teams.\u00a0 Chicago has had a difficult time in producing winning streaks this season, posting a 14-24 record after a win (-1,510).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n