Raptors forward Brandon Ingram doubtful for Game 6 vs. Cavaliers due to heel injury
Brandon Ingram is doubtful for Game 6 against the Cavaliers due to a heel injury.
The Chicago Cubs will face the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday, May 1, at 1:20 PM CT. The Cubs are on an eight-game home winning streak and lead the league in on-base percentage.
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Friday notesâŠ
The Chicago Cubs are currently on an eight-game home winning streak.
The Cubs have the highest on-base percentage in the league at .353, while the Diamondbacks rank 27th at .308.
The last time the Cubs won nine straight home games was from August 18 to September 2, 2017.
On May 1, 1991, the Cubs defeated the Astros 11-8, with Andre Dawson and Hector Villanueva hitting home runs.
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Colin Rea was going along just fine when the Dodgers torched him pretty good over the weekend.
That out of the way, Rea has been solid this year (and was last year, too). I donât think one bad start erases all the good things Rea has done for the Cubs rotation.
Rea started vs. Arizona April 18, 2025 at Wrigley Field and allowed one run in 4.2 innings with five strikeouts, probably on a pitch limit (threw 69 nice pitches). That was the crazy game where the D-backs scored 10 runs in the eighth but the Cubs came back and won anyway.
Ketel Marte is 4-for-6 with two homers off Rea, so it might be good to hold him down today.
Remember when Bob Nightengale said Zac Gallen was going to sign with the Cubs? According to this Awful Announcing article, hereâs what happened in the Gallen household after Nightengale made that social media post:
âSo I was sitting there at breakfast with my dad,â Gallen told MLBFits. âA family friend of ours came over, and heâs like, âOh nice, youâre going to Chicago,â and I was like, âI donât know what youâre talking about.â So there was a hectic kind of 20 minutes or so there. I was getting calls from family, and then from my now-wife, was like âWeâre going to Chicago?â Iâm like, âNo, I would let you know if weâre going to Chicago.ââ
Gallen and his wife actually got married the weekend after that news broke (and un-broke), which only amplifies how wild that report must have seemed in the moment.
So that must have been fun!
Anyway, as you obviously know, Gallen re-upped with the D-backs and has had a pretty good year so far: 3.14 ERA, 1.360 WHIP in six starts. His K rate is down a bit, but otherwise heâs showing that last year was an aberration in an otherwise fine career.
The last time he faced the Cubs, April 19, 2025 at Wrigley Field, they hit him pretty hard (seven hits, six runs in six innings), including home runs by Seiya Suzuki and Michael Busch.
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