The Chicago cub opened a nine-game road trip with a three-game series against the Washington Nationals starting on Tuesday night.
Sitting over the National League Central, the cub has won 12 of its last 15 matches, including two out of three from Cincinnati Reds over the weekend.
Michael Bush hit a domestic run and scored three runs, while Pete Crow-Armystrong and Nico Hornear made three hits, as the cub started five runs in a 7–3 win on Sunday.
“Just a group of separate people,” manager Craig Counsel said about his crime. “Every day different people. In this way you are aggressively consistent.”
Chicago was scared on Sunday when outfielder Kyle Tucker stole a second base to his right ring finger and eventually left the game. X-rays were negative.
“I feel fine,” said Tucker. “The hand got a little jam, or a little swollen, but obviously we got our day (Monday), so hopefully it seems a bit better after going to Washington.”
COUNSELL said that Tucker is day -to -day.
Batting second in the lineup, Tucker scored 12 domestic runs, 10 doubles, four triples, 44 runs and 39 with RBI. They have more walks (40) than strikeouts (32) and have 16 stolen hideouts.
There are also on abduction with citizens. He took two out of three on the road against Arizona Diamondback over the weekend to complete the 4-2 road trip.
“It was very important,” Louis Garcia, the second destitute of National, told reporters through an interpreter. “It just shows that we are a team that can compete and has a lot of talent in it.”
Washington has won 10 out of 14 from May 16 to move beyond the Atlanta brave and NL to third in the east.
The Chicago crook Right-Hand Cad Horton (2–0, 3.98 ERA) is set to oppose Washington’s right-handed hander Trevor Williams (3-5, 5.69) in the opener.
In the 2022 draft, Chicago’s first-round pick Horton started 2025 in Triple-A after a shoulder injury last season. He will be starting his fifth appearance and fourth Major League.
In his last outing, a decision without a decision against 23 -year -old Colorado Rockies scored six innings, scoring two runs on four hits. Through four matches, he killed 16 batsmen in 20 1/3 innings. Four went and gave four domestic runs.
After most of May struggling through May, Williams would have been coming from their best beginning of the season on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he played six shutout innings allowing three hits in a win against Seattle Meriners. He hit two and did not run a batsman.
Williams 18 shows 4-8 with 4.55 ERA (14 starts) vs. cubs.
After scoring four straight and nine or more runs in each game, the National was stimized by Diamondback in a 3–1 defeat on Sunday.
This type of game has been Outtiler for Washington’s Better Crime and Robert Hassel III’s recent arrival under James Wood. Wood is at speed for 44 domestic runs, while Hassel did a .333 batting average on Major League Road Trip of his first career.
Hassell is batting. 268 with home runs and six RBI with its first 10 career games.
“We are swinging on better pitches,” said National Manager Dave Martinez. “We are up the ball. And we are actually focusing on using the entire area, living in the middle of the field. When we can do so, you can see that we hit the ball very well.”
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