Game Date:
09/26/2016
7:05pm EST
Lines:
Chicago -1.5
Pittsburgh +1.5
Total:
Over
7.5 (+100)
Under 7.5 (-110)
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Chicago Cubs outfielder Jorge Soler played with Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez when the two were growing up in Cuba. Soler said Fernandez's ability was obvious, right from the start. ''Since he was a child, since we were kids, I knew he had something,'' Soler said through a translator. Continue to Article
September 26, 2016 4:22:am EST
Chicago Cubs outfielder Jorge Soler played with Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez when the two were growing up in Cuba. Soler said Fernandez's ability was obvious, right from the start. ''Since he was a child, since we were kids, I knew he had something,'' Soler said through a translator. Continue to Article
September 26, 2016 4:22:am EST
To make the National League playoffs for the sixth consecutive year, the St. Louis Cardinals will have to conquer their home-field disadvantage. Heading into a regular-season-ending, seven-game homestand that begins Monday night with the first of four games against the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis owns a 33-41 record at Busch Stadium. It is the first time since the stadium opened in its third iteration in 2006 that the Cardinals (81-74) will finish with a losing mark at home. Continue to Article
September 26, 2016 1:48:am EST
Neal Huntington was asked on his weekly radio show Sunday whether the Pittsburgh Pirates might want to scale their hopes back this season from making the playoffs to simply finishing with a winning record. The team's general manager hedged big-time, declining to buy into such a change in scope, although he did begin to talk about the offseason in a way that suggested the Pirates might not be able to claw their way into a National League wild-card spot. Realistically, finishing over .500 is probably the better target, but hardly an easy one, especially considering that the Chicago Cubs come to PNC Park to start a four-game series Monday, followed by a trip by Pittsburgh to St. Louis next weekend to close the regular season. Continue to Article
September 26, 2016 12:41:am EST
Neal Huntington was asked on his weekly radio show Sunday whether the Pittsburgh Pirates might want to scale their hopes back this season from making the playoffs to simply finishing with a winning record. The team's general manager hedged big-time, declining to buy into such a change in scope, although he did begin to talk about the offseason in a way that suggested the Pirates might not be able to claw their way into a National League wild-card spot. Realistically, finishing over .500 is probably the better target, but hardly an easy one, especially considering that the Chicago Cubs come to PNC Park to start a four-game series Monday, followed by a trip by Pittsburgh to St. Louis next weekend to close the regular season. Continue to Article
September 26, 2016 12:41:am EST
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