PCA (Pete Crow-Armstrong) scored 4 hits and 6 points in a single game to help Horton win his career home debut

Cade Horton's first career major league start, he was in the middle of a century-old feud between the Cubs and the White Sox. The Cubs rookie threw a right-hand shot in the frenzied atmosphere of Wrigley Field and delivered a quality start that showed his potential to lead his team to a 13-3 thrashing of his local rival.

Horton pitched 79 goals in five innings (tying the most balls used in a single game since joining the Cubs in the first round of the 2022 draft), hit seven hits, including two home runs by Miguel Vargas, and delivered two strikeouts without a guarantee for the second win of his career. And teammate Pete Crow-Armstrong, who defended the outfield, paved the way for Horton to win with a crazy performance of 4 hits and 6 RBIs in a single game.

Crowe Armstrong seized the White Sox's defensive chaos in the second inning and blasted Shane Smith's speedball into the right field stand for his 12th of the season. The three-point shot was only the second Smith hit this season. After this game, Crowe-Armstrong tied with Willson Contreras as the only player in the Cubs' history to have 4 hits + 6 points against the White Sox in a single game, and Contreras had a double hit, 4 hits and 7 RBIs against the White Sox on May 11, 2018.

Horton's speedball-slide combination made nine swings, with the four-seam speedball averaging 94.6mph and the fastest being 97.2mph. Despite being fired twice by Vargas, the 22-year-old's consistency on the ball (67 per cent good ball rate) was praised by head coach David Ross: "He showed the quality to be calm in a high-pressure environment, which is exactly what we expected. "