Brandon Woodruff Will Have Field Day Against Struggling Cubs Offense

A key National League Central matchup is set top go down in Milwaukee tonight when the Milwaukee Brewers host the Chicago Cubs.

Brandon Woodruff gets the start for the Brewers, and he’ll look to continue his stellar season. He enters the game with a 1.89 ERA, which is good for the third best earned run average in Major League Baseball. Only Jacob deGrom (0.69) and Kevin Gausman (1.49) have a better ERA than the Brewers ace.

WynnBET has the Brewers set as massive -240 favorites, and the Cubs are set as +185 underdogs. The total for the game is set at 7.5 runs.

If you’re looking for a player prop to bet on for tonight’s slate, look no further than this game. The Cubs offense has been downright brutal in June, and I took advantage of fading them on Sunday by taking the over on Clayton Kershaw’s strikeout total. It proved to be the right move as Kershaw finished with an eye-popping 13 strikeouts.

We’re going back to the well of fading the Cubs’ bats in tonight’s matchup against Brandon Woodruff. WynnBET has Woodruff’s strikeout total for the game set at 8.5, and the over is priced at an enticing -108.

Woodruff has recorded at least nine strikeouts in three of the Brewers' last five games, and he has a K/9 average this season of 10.5. Tonight he’ll be facing a Cubs team that ranks 28th in the majors in strikeout percentage, with 26.7% of their at bats ending in a strikeout.

The Cubs offense has been especially brutal in the month of June, as they’re second-to-last in both OPS at .629 and runs scored at 89. Only the Cardinals offense has been worse this month.

Woodruff is second on the odds list to win the National League Cy Young award at +800, and he’s in a prime position to build on that resume tonight against a struggling Cubs squad.