The Cubs welcome a NL Central rival to Wrigley Field.

The Reds are 8-7 since the All-Star break and come off a series loss to the Braves that included that rain-delayed fiasco at the Bristol Motor Speedway. They enter this series on the fringes of the wild-card race, four games behind the third wild-card spot.

For more on the Reds, here’s Wick Terrell, manager of our SB Nation Reds site Red Reporter.

The Cincinnati Reds sit at 58-54 at the outset of this series in Chicago, four games back of the final NL Wild Card spot and chasing the San Diego Padres and New York Mets.

It’s a position in which they’ve been for quite some time, as this Reds club has not yet been swept in a single series so far in 2025 yet also hasn’t managed to put together a win streak long enough to write home about.

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