Tyler Chatwood joked with manager David Ross that he shouldn’t have let Kyle Hendricks finish the game on Opening Day, because the outing would be hard to match.
While Chatwood’s performance in the Cubs’ 9-1 win over the Brewers wasn’t a complete-game shutout a la Hendricks, it was a strong opening to his first start back in the Cubs’ rotation.
“We were just messing around,” Chatwood said with a smile. “Kyle set the bar pretty high for everybody. That was incredible. [Today] was good. I mean, Willie and I, we had a good game plan going into it, and we were able to execute and we got a really good rhythm throughout there.