Cade Horton was DOMINANT on the North Side for the Cubs as a rookie! 🐻 (Full 2025 season highlights)

We expect to see the major league debut of the number seven pick in the 2022 draft. That’s Kate Horton. Well, the report on Kate Horton is a lively fast ball as you’ve seen. 95 plus little cut on it. Slider curve ball his next secondary pitches. He’s got to attack right there. He does on the outside edge to strike out NMO. And a big family contingent is here cheering on Horton who has his first major league strikeout. See the cut action. Amaya brings it back nicely and then the young rookie reaction. Not much. Luis Anelkuna on an infield single and an RBI last night. Over is BCH. Good job by the athletic court to cover and his first big league inning. One, two, three frame on nine pitches. His parents Mike and Carrie. Plenty of family and friends are thrilled. Oh, there is a curveball in the dirt that Batty swings through and a second Kate Horton strikeout. Sodto on the ground towards second. It’s scooped up by her. He’ll toss to BCH to retire the side and Cade Horton’s first jam. He’s able to get out of it. It is a payoff pitch to Akuna and he gets him on the slider. Lot lots of really important influences like Skip Johnson. I mean, just, you know, really helped mold him as you not only great baseball, play a great young man. There goes Lindor. Sodto swings and just got a piece. At least I thought he got a piece. Now he’s being ruled out. Thought Sodto had just gotten a slight piece of that one. missed it. That’s because it was unable to be held on to by Amaya. Alonzo hits it to third. It’s caught by Birdie. And Kade Horton’s major league debut likely done after four innings. What a night for the 23-year-old from Norman, Oklahoma. And we saw a lot of early swings from the Rocky hitters last night. They’re up against Kate Horton here, the rookie right-hander Thursday in Florida against the Fish. Five and a third, six hits, just one run allowed. Comes the O2 swing and a miss. struck him out. There it is. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Yeah, you see a good look at the grip there, the circle change. And really good run on that pitch. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. How about the action on that pitch? Wow. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Here’s the O2. Right through there. See you later. Swing and a miss. Horton gets the strike out for Kate Horton. Three and one with a 4.11 ERA as he takes the mound here this afternoon. And a swing and a miss. Nasty slider right there. And Kate Horton able to get him. One, two, three. Swing and a miss. And Horton carves up Andrew McCutchen. Have a little extra fire in the belly when you’re up against a guy like skins. Swang and a miss. Struck him out. Davis is gone. Out number three for Kade. All swinging. Infield in man at third. Scoreless. One out. Here’s the pitch. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Reynolds retired had a big spot for it. Really nice work after getting ahead of him two strikes. Tried the change up, tried the high fast ball, then went back to the breaking pitch. Councel’s going to bring in Caleb Fieldar as Kate Horton gets a nice round of applause as his day is done. Kate Horton on the bound and for Seamer averaging about 96, well above the major league average. There goes the runner. The pitch is high. Throw to second on the money. Got him. Reese Maguire. What a throw. I mean, right there. Swing and a miss. And Thomas is down on strikes. And a swing and a miss. Struck him out. Swing and a miss. He went change up and he got him. That’s a good pitch right there. There goes Naylor. Pitches high. Throw to second. Tag out at second. The second spectacular throw from Reese Maguire. Swing and a miss. And Horton doing it with that change up. It’s been excellent here tonight. Swing and a miss. Got him to chase on the Heater. Santana is gone. And Horton fires. Got him reaching out towards center. Pete Crow Armstrong. Out number three. Seven shutout innings for Cade Horton. Kate Horton is going to be his job to try to shut down this Red Sox lineup. Keep him in the game, especially going up against Garrett Crochet. So, in 11 games, he’s got a 445 ERA. He’s been really good at home in particular, a 254 ERA. Good breaking ball and he gets him to swag and miss. First strike out for Kade Horton. The one two swag and a miss and he overwhelms Narvay and a couple of strikeouts in the inning. Kate Horton off to a good start. Borton kicks and delivers a swing and a miss. Strike three as Borton catch him with a fast ball. Horton has retired eight in a row. That’s exactly what he did upstairs and Arvay couldn’t catch up. A strike out and there’s one away third. Shaw stem throws him out. Two down. Brett Council’s going to make a pitching change and Kate Horton is going to get a standing ovation. Welld deserved. He did an excellent job here today. The 23-year-old from Norman, Oklahoma, the Cubs first round pick in 2022, seventh overall. And the former Sooner has been great since the break. 17 scoreless innings in there. See you later. And a good start as Horton freezes Fredle. The one two swing and a miss. Struck him out. Fade with the change up. got his man. Jack swang. Did he go? Yes, he did. Struck him out. Swang and a miss. And he struck him out. He got him with that four seamer that has that cutting action. That’s strike three. Cade Horton racks up number five. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. That one hit hard. corner on the outfield grass. Flags it down on a hop and one, two, three. Kate Horton done for the afternoon as Craig Council wants to turn Ellie de la Cruz around. Great work for Horton. He hasn’t allowed a run since July 9th. And that one is in there. Got him. And Kate Horton on the curve ball gets the strike out. One away. It’s the O2 curve ball clings to the outside corner and first punch out of the day for Horton coming up on the home stand. One, two, outside corner. Got him. Horton ready. Here’s the one, two. Struck him out. Kade Horton gets him. One, two, three. Payoff pitch. Struck him out. Kade Horton registers strikeout number four. And there’s two away. Yeah, a breaking ball. Actually, it was a bad one, but it was a good result. Here’s a one-two foul. Tipped into the catcher’s mid of Omaya. Struck him out. 3-2. There goes the runner. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Horton gets the punch out. It’s number six. I’ve watched that video. 3-2. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. Horton gets another. It’s his seventh and there’s two away. outside corner. Got him. And a strike out. His eighth. Here comes the 02. Line drive and a base hit into center field. And Jimenez with the Jay’s first hit of the night. Kate Horton brilliant here tonight. Kate Horton 3080. All right. 87 to 2/3 innings of work now for him. And getting a lot of ground balls. It’s higher ground ball rate at the big league level than he produced at the minor league level. And the change up has been quite a weapon for the hardthrowing right-hander. Horton delivers. Swing and a miss strike three. Kane Horton strikes out Mike Trout and it’s a one, two, three inning to start his outing here in Anaheim. Look at that waving a miss strike three. Zack Neto down on strikes and Kane Horton three scoreless. Two nothing Cubs lead. And Trout swings and misses strike three for the second time today. Kate Horton strikes out Mike Trout. Wave and a miss. Strike three. Good meeting Tommy and Ree. Called third strike. Ring him up. Sit him down. Kade Horton 96 puts him away. Kade fires. It’s a called third strike. How about that? dropped a hat-tick on Trout. Might remember that for a bit. 3-2. It’s a cold. Third strike. Ring him up. Sit him down. Cade Horton the right-hander. The rookie from Norman, Oklahoma. It is Cade Horton. You know, trying to finish strong going to offseason with Cl. Swing and a miss. And Horton eats him up. Three pitches and an out. Here it is. Boo. When you talk about his ability with the secondary stuff, that ball is middle middle, but when you you can get away with when the spin is tight and crisp like that is ready. Two- two. Swing and a miss. Struck him out. He went change up right on right. It was filthy. Swang and a miss. And he just got Eli White on three pitches. Third strike out. Next pitch in there. Got him. And Olsen is gone. And that is strikeout number four for Kade Horton. These guys are having a gripe, but I think Kai Moore is doing doing a terrific job behind the plate that on the block. Here’s a two- two and a swing and a miss. Struck him out. Backto back strikeouts. Swing and a miss. And he struck him out. Five scoreless no hit innings for Cade Horton so far. Well, what can we tell you about Kade Horton? 139 combined innings this year, minor leagues and big league. Strikeout rate has spiked since the All-Star break. 0.84 RA post break. Swang and a miss. Struck him out. An extended battle and Horton eventually prevails. 3-2 pitch. Swang and a foul tip into the mid of Kelly. Struck him out. challenged him and then beat him. The 2-2 check, swing, strike three call. What a job by Horton striking out the numbers three and four hitters, Reynolds and Cruz. Swing and a miss. Strike three. But now Horton starting to hit his stride in this game. That’s four men in a row retired. Of the four, three of them by strikeouts. 3-2. And foul chipped into the mid of Kelly. struck him out. Strike out number five for Kade here tonight. Goes with that breaking ball. Ariel pulls off the 2-2. Cold strike three. Fast ball borderline that apparently clipped the bottom edge of the zone right down the middle. And the Pirates go down in order here in the fifth.

Cade Horton was one of the reasons why the Cubs returned to October this season! Watch his 2025 season highlights as a rookie!

Cade Horton’s 1.03 ERA in the second half was the second-lowest in Cubs history (min. 60 IP) trailing only Jake Arrieta’s 0.75 ERA in 2015!

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