Houston Astros vs. Chicago Cubs gametracker_new.mlb.expert-picks_description - May 23, 2026 Gametracker

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K. TengR	2-3 W-L	31.0 IP	2.61 ERA	2.50 SO/BB	1.10 WHIP
C. ReaR	4-2 W-L	47.0 IP	4.98 ERA	2.86 SO/BB	1.43 WHIP

2-3, 31.0 IP, 2.61 ERA

4-2, 47.0 IP, 4.98 ERA

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Jose Altuve	Oblique	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	05-30-2026Expected to be out until at least May 31
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-22-2026Expected to be out until at least May 23
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-28-2026Expected to be out until at least May 29
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-13-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 14
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-24-2026Expected to be out until at least May 25

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Tyler Austin	Knee	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Matthew Boyd	Knee	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Justin Steele	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Edward Cabrera	Finger	05-25-2026Expected to be out until at least May 26
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Porter Hodge	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Matt Shaw	Back	05-29-2026Expected to be out until at least May 30
Riley Martin	Elbow	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	52	188	30	57	31	15	33	37	.303	.416	.601	1.017	11	0	1	0	194
C. Walker 1B	52	189	28	48	31	11	18	43	.254	.327	.481	.808	10	0	0	0	149
I. Paredes 3B	46	168	19	41	20	5	17	33	.244	.335	.375	.710	7	0	0	0	108
J. Altuve 2B	42	163	27	40	12	4	19	35	.245	.326	.380	.706	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Smith RF	51	164	19	34	17	4	19	53	.207	.298	.317	.615	6	0	6	1	94
C. Vazquez C	32	93	9	24	16	4	9	17	.258	.324	.430	.754	4	0	0	0	65
B. Matthews CF	42	121	13	25	14	4	9	44	.207	.260	.355	.615	4	1	2	1	60
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
B. Shewmake SS	20	56	7	16	7	3	1	11	.286	.298	.482	.780	2	0	0	0	36
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Pena SS	14	59	6	15	1	0	3	10	.254	.297	.322	.619	4	0	1	0	27
J. Meyers CF	15	48	5	11	4	1	4	12	.229	.296	.333	.629	2	0	1	2	24
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
Z. Cole LF	16	47	3	8	8	3	0	19	.170	.188	.383	.571	1	0	0	0	20
N. Allen SS	23	34	7	8	0	0	3	6	.235	.297	.265	.562	1	0	0	0	16
Z. Dezenzo LF	13	35	3	8	2	1	2	12	.229	.270	.400	.670	3	0	0	0	15
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
C. Salazar C	5	11	0	1	0	0	2	1	.091	.231	.091	.322	0	0	0	0	2
Total	52	1748	222	431	212	61	175	421	.247	.321	.403	.724	84	3	17	8	1159

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	7	7	6-1	0	0	41.0	1.32	24	8	6	1	25	40	.169	1.20	128
P. Lambert SP	6	6	2-4	0	0	35.1	3.57	24	14	14	2	14	35	.189	1.08	71
B. King RP	19	0	0-1	5	7	22.1	2.82	20	9	7	0	9	17	.235	1.30	66
K. Teng RP	16	3	2-3	0	0	31.0	2.61	22	9	9	3	12	30	.198	1.10	62
M. Burrows SP	10	10	2-6	0	0	56.1	5.75	66	36	36	12	20	48	.293	1.53	58
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
E. De Los Santos RP	19	0	0-1	3	3	20.0	4.50	20	10	10	1	4	17	.250	1.20	50
A. Blubaugh RP	20	0	2-2	0	0	29.2	4.55	22	15	15	4	20	24	.210	1.42	47
S. Okert RP	24	1	0-0	0	0	21.1	4.22	17	10	10	3	7	19	.221	1.13	39
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
B. Abreu RP	18	0	2-2	3	3	16.0	7.31	14	14	13	4	19	21	.237	2.06	34
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander RP	3	1	1-0	0	0	12.1	7.30	15	10	10	2	6	10	.294	1.70	21
T. Imai SP	5	5	1-2	0	0	17.1	8.31	17	16	16	4	14	21	.258	1.79	9
L. VanWey RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	3	.143	0.50	6
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
N. Pearson RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	3
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	2
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	52	52	21-31	12	14	455.1	5.28	438	276	267	68	254	437	.253	1.52	701

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
N. Hoerner 2B	50	201	23	52	30	4	24	18	.259	.345	.383	.728	13	0	10	1	168
I. Happ LF	49	182	35	39	20	10	36	73	.214	.350	.429	.779	7	1	2	0	138
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	51	184	27	42	22	6	17	54	.228	.311	.375	.686	5	2	12	3	134
M. Busch 1B	50	179	20	41	27	4	34	48	.229	.361	.369	.730	11	1	1	0	129
D. Swanson SS	49	166	30	31	27	7	24	43	.187	.289	.349	.638	4	1	3	0	124
A. Bregman 3B	50	200	22	50	16	4	25	39	.250	.338	.350	.688	6	1	2	0	119
S. Suzuki RF	37	138	22	36	18	7	20	41	.261	.360	.442	.802	4	0	0	0	102
C. Kelly C	37	121	16	35	17	2	15	25	.289	.377	.388	.765	6	0	0	0	84
M. Ballesteros DH	41	112	14	27	20	6	10	24	.241	.298	.446	.744	5	0	0	0	82
M. Shaw RF	42	95	10	23	12	3	6	18	.242	.291	.400	.691	6	0	3	1	63
M. Conforto RF	30	61	11	19	11	3	12	18	.311	.419	.590	1.009	8	0	0	0	61
M. Amaya C	29	73	14	18	9	3	10	18	.247	.360	.397	.757	2	0	0	0	56
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
N. Lopez 3B	4	5	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	51	1725	248	414	229	59	233	423	.240	.337	.394	.731	77	6	34	5	1265

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	10	10	4-4	0	0	58.2	3.38	45	23	22	7	16	61	.206	1.04	149
E. Cabrera SP	10	10	3-2	0	0	54.0	4.00	53	29	24	8	20	47	.262	1.35	110
C. Rea SP	10	7	4-2	1	1	47.0	4.98	53	27	26	6	14	40	.280	1.43	94
B. Brown RP	15	3	1-2	1	2	38.2	2.09	26	11	9	1	12	40	.187	0.98	92
J. Taillon SP	10	10	2-4	0	0	55.1	5.20	52	33	32	17	18	47	.244	1.27	88
H. Milner RP	23	0	1-0	1	2	23.1	1.93	16	5	5	2	6	10	.195	0.94	60
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
J. Assad RP	8	3	3-1	0	0	26.0	5.88	26	17	17	4	7	14	.263	1.27	51
D. Palencia RP	11	0	1-0	3	3	9.2	1.86	10	2	2	1	4	11	.263	1.45	46
J. Webb RP	22	0	0-1	1	3	21.2	2.91	22	10	7	3	8	25	.259	1.38	42
R. Rolison RP	12	0	3-1	0	1	14.0	3.86	12	7	6	3	6	14	.240	1.29	41
C. Thielbar RP	12	0	2-2	2	3	9.2	2.79	7	4	3	2	5	11	.189	1.24	37
T. Thornton RP	6	0	2-0	0	0	7.2	2.35	4	2	2	1	2	5	.154	0.78	31
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
E. Roberts RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	0.79	4	1	1	0	6	7	.118	0.88	24
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
P. Maton RP	17	0	0-1	0	0	15.0	8.40	18	14	14	3	9	19	.300	1.80	5
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
G. Hollowell RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	2	2	2	1	4	1	.286	3.60	-2
Total	51	51	29-22	10	16	453.1	4.07	402	222	205	68	156	412	.236	1.23	988

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