{"id":275666,"date":"2025-10-03T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275666\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:41:11","slug":"cubs-cade-horton-wont-pitch-against-brewers-in-nlds-as-he-recovers-from-rib-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275666\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs&#8217; Cade Horton won&#8217;t pitch against Brewers in NLDS as he recovers from rib injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Chicago Cubs rookie Cade Horton won\u2019t pitch in the NL Division Series against the Milwaukee Brewers as he recovers from a rib fracture that sent him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cubs-horton-mlb-d6a71e321d690e8d9f3753c88595ea34\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:injured list;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">injured list<\/a> during the regular season&#8217;s final week.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs manager Craig Counsell made that announcement Friday, the day before his team begins the best-of-5 series in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re encouraging healing right now, so we\u2019re not doing anything that would cause pain,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t pushed him to a place that we would test that. I think as we get into later this week, we\u2019re going to have to decide if it\u2019s time to do that, and that decision has not been made yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Horton has gone 11-4 with a 2.67 ERA in 23 appearances, making him a Rookie of the Year contender. The Cubs selected him out of Oklahoma with the seventh overall pick in the 2022 amateur draft.<\/p>\n<p>Horton was placed on the 15-day injured list retroactive to Sept. 25 and missed the Cubs\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/padres-cubs-score-mlb-playoffs-0f031ff6ee5fc07351412c1631b100ea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NL Wild Card Series;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NL Wild Card Series<\/a> victory over the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>He last pitched Sept. 23 and left that game with back tightness. Counsell had indicated Horton was sick after his start before that one, causing problems with his back and ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs haven\u2019t announced their Game 1 pitching plans for this series. The Brewers are starting All-Star Freddy Peralta, who went 17-6 with a 2.70 ERA during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re going into this with a couple plans,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to let everybody throw today and then make a decision after that. But we\u2019ve definitely got what we\u2019d prefer to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee also is missing one of its top starting pitchers. Two-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milwaukee-brewers-1c209b09041ad1f9503e7dfc00097ff0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brandon Woodruff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brandon Woodruff<\/a> is sidelined by a lat strain.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Chicago Cubs rookie Cade Horton won\u2019t pitch in the NL Division Series against the Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[125130,5437,1271,1816,20395,4247,1266,142603,142604,1306,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-275666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brandon-woodruff","9":"tag-cade-horton","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-craig-counsell","12":"tag-freddy-peralta","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nl-division-series","16":"tag-rib-fracture","17":"tag-san-diego-padres","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115312648823311879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}