Has the Cubs' offense arrived?
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How has the Cubs' offense improved recently?
Rahimi, Harrison, Grody. Could you imagine Lovey Smith doing the whole good, better, best thing and saying bleep the Packers? Come on, guys. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Never let it rest. I'll see you on Tuesday. Middays 10 to 2 on 104.3 The Score. They sit down the right field line. This is going to drive in two more runs. The throw to the plate is going to be late. Sliding in. Matt Shaw, two-run single, Nico Horner. He is becoming an RBI machine. Five RBIs in this game. He leads the team with 18 for the year.
La Machina. The Machine, Nico Horner right there. Gabe Ramirez hanging out with Marshall Harris on Rahimi Harris and Grody right here on 104.3 The Score. Nico Horner, I mean, you talk about dollars. We were talking about Imanaga a second ago and the complaints that were coming through when he got his contract. You didn't hear much of that when it came to Nico Horner, especially on the heels of a PCA contract as well, another $100 million deal. But he's been playing some really good baseball, leading off yesterday 3-for-5, five RBIs, had the homer and a stolen base, batting .324 on the season. I mean, it's exactly what you want from one of your young guys.
The way the Cubs offense has responded since having some real problems, right? It started Sunday, I think, coming back from that big deficit against the Pirates in which Jamison Tyone gives up a grand slam. And you're thinking, oh, well, there's no way the Cubs are going to score enough runs to come back because they haven't, you know, been scoring runs. But they do come back. They get the win. in walk-off fashion, and even when they lost to the Phillies, right, Monday, they score seven runs. And I was like, all right, well, this is something good. You just need a little bit better pitching, even though the bullpen is in tatters. You just need better pitching. And they come up with the opener, and I think this is what really kind of set it off for them.
They got through the top of the Phillies order without any issues. Riley Martin goes with a six-pitch, one, two, three inning, and that's kind of calmed everything down and gave them a chance to be in the game. and once that happened the offense gets settled in and so to go 7 runs on Monday 10 runs on Tuesday 11 runs yesterday you're looking at an offense that is ripping and running through the house right now my mom always told me stop that ripping and running the house but no if you're the Cubs keep on ripping and running and the main ripper It's Nico Horner. We played that X going to give it to you. He's been the X factor in this lineup.
And he's been giving it to them. And that's interesting. I look at the, I mean, one through nine has been playing exceptionally well over the course of the last, you know, four games. And that's what, how this lineup was built, right? If you're the fan that's looking at one through nine and you're like, wow, you know, I love Nico at one. I love, you know, PCA late back down there, you know, when, when by steroids is playing well for those, that stretch of games. It's what you ultimately want and what you thought was going to happen with this team, right, where you had solid. This is what the vision was, Marshall, at the beginning of the season. Good timely hitting, you know, guys that can get the job done one through nine, and then pitching, right?
And that's what you got yesterday. You saw the whole thing come together. But, I mean, it's so early in the season. Were you actually worried about any of these guys outside of Alex Bregman?
No, no. Here's why I wasn't worried. I wasn't worried because I felt like the depth is as deep as it's been in a long time for this team. In which you had... your manager, Craig Council, with so many options that he can't even manage in-game, depending on if there's a righty or a lefty coming out of the pin. He can adjust, and it's not like that one adjustment. He can substitute for that guy, too, because he's got Matt Shaw, and now Seiya Suzuki's healthy, but also Moises Ballesteros, who they didn't need yesterday, but he's hitting.
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