The Cubs and Reds play a double header with Cy Young implications. Game one features Travis Wood against Johnny Cueto. Wood is winning despite a high ERA, as the Cubs scored five or more runs in six of his starts. Wood, if fact, has started the two highest scoring Cubs games of the season. That’s bad news for Cueto, who is battling Adam Wainwright and Clayton Kershaw for the Cy Young award. He pitched great at home this season, however, with a 1.61 ERA despite allowing seven of his nine home runs in Cincinnati.

Masahiro Tanaka tries to gain on Felix Hernandez in the Cy Young race as the Yankees face the Indians and Trevor Bauer. Lefties have not figured out Tanaka yet, as they hit just .219/.250/.329 against him. Bauer improved this season by bringing his walks down, but he’s still allowing balls to leave the park.

Bud Norris and Doug Fister square off as the battle of the mid-Atlantic continues between Baltimore and Washington. Norris is quite stingy with runners in scoring position, batters going just 10 for 73 with three walks in that situation. Fister continues his mastery of the strike zone with just six walks allowed in 70 2/3 innings.

Julio Teheran is also in the hunt for the NL Cy Young award as the Braves take on the Mets and Jacob deGrom. Teheran reduced his hits allowed by avoiding square contact. Batters are hitting line drives on 17.6% of their balls in play against Julio, as opposed to 21.2% last season. deGrom pitched better than his 1-5 record with good strikeout numbers, although his walks are a little high.

Finally, the Giants and Athletics play the second game of their home and home series with Madison Bumgarner visiting Sonny Gray. Bumgarner’s been hurt by allowing five of his nine home runs with men on base. Gray allowed six long balls all season, all of them solo shots.

Enjoy!