This is a 10* TOP TOTAL on the UNDER Reds/Cubs.

These teams have split the first two games of this series. Cincinnati took the firs game by a score of 5-3, while the Cubs won yesterday by a score of 8-3.

We're expecting much more of a "DUEL" here though in the grudge-match.

The visitors hand the ball to Graham Ashcraft (4-1, 3.27 ERA), while hte home side counters with Kyle Hendricks (3-6, 4.90.)

Ashcraft comes in off a gem vs. the Giants, allowing two runs and posting eight strikeouts over eight innings in the 4-2 victory.

Hendricks is coming off perhaps his best start of 2022 as well, allowing zero runs off five hits and striking out six over eight innings in a 3-0 victory over the Cards on Friday: "That was as good as I've seen him this year," Cubs manager David Ross said afterwards. "Every time they thought the fastball was coming, (he was) throwing a changeup, keeping them off-balance. Vintage Kyle."

Look for these surging starting pitchers to garner most of the headlines in tomorrow's summaries of this contest.

The play is the UNDER.

Good luck, NP