#959/960 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Under 7.5 Runs – Chicago Cubs vs Milwaukee Brewers, Friday at 8 PM ET - These two just played a higher scoring series last week but those numbers were very deceiving as we has strong winds blowing out at Wrigley for 2 of those games. We know what happens when the wind blows out at Wrigley! The one game where the wind was not in play last week was a 5-2 Milwaukee win. The fact is, even with the other 2 games factored in (scores of 8-7 and 6-5) these 2 teams are simply bad right now offensively. Over the last 10 games Milwaukee is hitting .173 and Chicago is hitting .199. Over the last month Milwaukee’s bats rank 28th in batting average and the Cubs check in at 22nd. Both struggling offenses are facing pitchers performing at a high level right now. Chicago’s starter Steele has been nearly unhittable allowing 1 ER or fewer in 7 of his last 9 starting including not allowing a single ER in 4 of those starts. One of those starts was last week vs Milwaukee where he did not allow an ER in 6 innings of work. Not overly surprising as he is pitching lights out and the Brewers own the 2nd worst batting average in MLB vs lefties. Milwaukee starter Peralta has made 4 starts since returning from the DL and allowed just 7 ER’s combined in those outings. He faced the Cubs last week and gave up 2 ER’s in 6 innings pitched. Peralta’s overall ERA is 4.08 but he’s pitched much better than that with an xERA of 3.23 and a FIP of 3.07. Neither pitcher allows many HR’s with Peralta giving up just 4 this season in 57+ innings and Steele allowing only 7 round trippers in 113+ innings. We anticipate a low scoring game between these division rivals and we like the Under.