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MLBSat 12 Sept 18:20 UTCWrigley FieldFinished
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Chicago CubsWLLLLPittsburgh arrives on a strong four game winning run despite a recent setback and looks ready to handle the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The price of 2.04 on the visitors offers decent value against a home side struggling badly for momentum.
Bookmakers have not priced the total runs line for this fixture so there is no total market available to play.
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The market makes Chicago Cubs the side to beat here at 53%, but only just, so this reads as a close call rather than a mismatch. Our model lands on Pittsburgh Pirates, and it backs that with a 2 units stake. Pittsburgh arrives on a strong four game winning run despite a recent setback and looks ready to handle the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The price of 2.04 on the visitors offers decent value against a home side struggling badly for momentum.
Chicago Cubs come in patchy, winning 43% of 14 on record. 4 of their 8 home games went their way, and the numbers point to games at both ends, plenty of goals either way. Right now they are on 1 win in a row.
Pittsburgh Pirates come in strong, winning 69% of 13 on record. 5 of their 7 away games went their way, and the numbers point to games at both ends, plenty of goals either way. Right now they are on 1 loss in a row.
The prices turn into 53% for CHC and 47% for PIT once the bookmaker margin is stripped out. There is little between the two in the market, so the edge, if there is one, sits in the detail rather than the headline price. Our call sits at 2.04, and we only stake it because the reasons for it outweigh the reasons against.
Across 1 past meetings CHC hold the edge with 1 wins to 0. Old results carry less weight than they look, but the pattern is worth a glance.
We back Pittsburgh Pirates for 2 units. It settles itself when the game ends, win or lose, and it goes on the record either way. This is an opinion read off the form and the prices on this page, not advice, and never a promise of a result.
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Chicago Cubs14 games on recordPittsburgh Pirates13 games on recordCounted from the settled results on this site, newest first. Nothing here is copied from anywhere else, so if a number looks wrong the mistake is ours.
Old meetings are worth less than they look. Squads change, managers change, and a result from two seasons ago tells you almost nothing about this one.
The site model calls Pittsburgh at 2.04 because they arrive on a strong four game winning run despite a recent setback and look ready to handle the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. That price offers dec...