Gray tabbed as top option on short-slate Thursday

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Thursday's schedule is a light one with just five games. Weather figures to be a factor for one of those five games: STL-CHC has a 66% chance of rain. And the status of that contest looms large for the starter quality prognosis for the first day of August. The listed hurlers -- Sonny Gray and Shota Imanaga -- rank 1-2 in the matchup ratings.

 

Notable Starts:

Sonny Gray draws a road start at Wrigley Field, and he's looking to put a coupe dodgy starts behind him. Gray coughed up five runs in each of his last two starts. He owns a 2.91 xERA over 12 IP against the Cubs this season, and current CHC batters own an aggregate .683 OPS against him. Despite scoring 13 runs Wednesday, Chicago has slashed a mere...

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