Today starts a stretch of 26 games in 27 days for the Cubs, with 13 of those games coming against teams listed in MLB.com’s top 10 power rankings. The Nationals are not one of those teams, but they have been playing decent baseball over the last few weeks and aren’t necessarily a pushover. Then again, their 302 runs allowed are the fourth-worst in the NL.
That means all Cade Horton needs to do is keep them to four runs and he’s got an easy win. Okay, it’s not quite that simple, though he hasn’t given up more than three runs in any of his four MLB appearances.