Cubs 10, Phillies 1: Welcome back, Nico Hoerner!

Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty ImagesRemember the days of “You go, we go” with Dexter Fowler leading off for the Cubs?

The Cubs have done some of that this year with Nico Hoerner in the leadoff spot, and Friday night’s game showed how much the team missed Nico while he was out with a minor hamstring injury. Nico went 3-for-6 and drove in four runs, helping lead the ballclub to a 10-1 rout of the Phillies. The win snapped a five-game losing streak and it was the team’s biggest margin of victory since a 13-0 blowout of the Dodgers back on April 21.

A bit of sketchy fielding led to a Phillies run in the first inning. A ball bounced off Nick Madrigal’s glove that could have been called an error;…