Cade Horton has spent a lot of time the last couple of days thinking about the circumstances surrounding his right rib fracture.

The Chicago Cubs’ rookie right-hander landed on the 15-day injured list Saturday with the injury that initially manifested from an illness-born cough a week earlier in Cincinnati. He said he experienced fatigue with the cough and at times it was tough to breathe while playing catch, but he felt he got over it and didn’t think anything was out of the ordinary leading up to his outing.

Horton, though, exited after the third inning of his start Tuesday when he experienced tightening in his ribs. Then an MRI revealed the fracture.

Horton, speaking Sunday for the first time since he departed Tuesday’s outing prematurely, called the situation “a perfect storm, unf

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