Cubs announced Horton\u2019s injury<\/a> after his exit in the second inning. The extent of his injury wasn\u2019t immediately clear.<\/p>\nHorton pitched a 1-2-3 first against the Guardians, then walked Kyle Manzardo on five pitches to lead off the second. After throwing a pitch to Josh Naylor on the next at-bat, Horton immediately looked to the Cubs dugout. Manager Craig Counsell and a trainer left the dugout for a meeting on the mound, and Horton left the field with the trainer, his day done.<\/p>\n
The Cubs announced shortly after his exit that he had been initially diagnosed with right forearm discomfort.<\/p>\n
Horton, 24, flashed ace potential during his promising 2025 rookie campaign. In 23 appearances, Horton posted a 2.67 ERA and 1.085 WHIP with 97 strikeouts and 33 walks in 118 innings pitched. He finished second behind Braves catcher Drake Baldwin in NL Rookie of the Year voting while garnering nine of 30 first-place votes.<\/p>\n
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Horton allowed two earned runs in 6 1\/3 innings in his first start this season, a 10-2 win over the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n
Horton started this season as a key member of Chicago\u2019s rotation as the Cubs seek to make the playoffs for a second consecutive season and unseat the reigning NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs and their fans are now left to hope that his injury isn\u2019t significant and doesn\u2019t require an extended layoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs starter Cade Horton threw just 17 pitches on Friday before leaving a start against the Cleveland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,735,138,24,4245,51,161,5931,94,1389,59,4,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-661642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cade-horton","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-chicagocubs","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-drake-baldwin","16":"tag-josh-naylor","17":"tag-kyle-manzardo","18":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116343154061853348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}