145 games into the Cubs season, they’ve not had a four-game losing streak (and also haven’t won six straight). They had to win Tuesday night to keep that statement accurate. They handled the ball to their promising rookie and he was more than up to the task. The Cubs gave him a run before he took the mound and a second one before his third inning of work. He made those two runs hold up for one of his longest outings of the season.

Cade Horton has now completed 110 innings with an ERA of 2.70 and a FIP of 3.62 that suggests it isn’t too much of a fluke. He has a 43.7 percent ground ball rate and with an elite infield defense around him, that’s an effective approach. He has stranded 78 percent of runners which is high, but not excessively so. He has allowed a batting average on balls in pla

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