The Cincinnati Reds are the top team to playing totals Under in MLB this year and face a starting pitcher in Kyle Hendricks who has been dominant at home this season.

In his seven home starts in 2019, Hendricks is 4-1 with a 1.65 ERA and has allowed 0.9 walks and 0.37 home runs per nine innings. The team is 5-2 in his home starts and ironically one of those defeats came at the hands of the Reds, who send their ace to the mound in Luis Castillo.

Castillo is 8-3 with a 2.29 ERA and is giving up 5.3 hits per nine innings, a league low for qualifying starters. In eight road starts, he is averaging 12 strikeouts per nine innings, though the team has a 3-5 record in those starts despite it.

The Reds’ bullpen certainly got stretched out in Colorado over the weekend, but still have a top-10 ERA in the league while the Cubs bullpen is 12th in that category. With Hendricks averaging seven innings per start at home and Castillo going six or more innings in all but one of his starts since the beginning of June, both teams should get length out of the starters.

The Reds enter this week having played more than 65 percent of their road games to the Under, and the Cubs have had over 53 percent of their games at Wrigley Field stay Under. With these two starters going at it, that is a trend that should continue.

The play: Reds-Cubs, Under (total posted Monday morning).