I’m not sure what going on the road or playing in Anaheim or both has done to Kyle Tucker, but whatever it is, I hope the Cubs bottle it up and keep it around for the rest of the year.

Tucker smashed two home runs for his first multi-homer game as a Cub. Reese McGuire added a grand slam and the Cubs demolished the Angels 12-1, their first game scoring in double digits since they beat the Brewers 10-3 on July 30.

Let’s begin at the beginning.

The story of this game beyond all the Cubs hitting was Cade Horton, who absolutely breezed through the first two innings, throwing just 13 pitches for those six outs, all strikes. In fact, Horton’s first 21 pitches of the game were strikes, something that had been done only one other time in the last 27 years:

Horton had some help from his defense

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