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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Nico Hoerner is off to a strong start

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner's strong start to the season.

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0:00.0

Segal and Holmes.

0:01.1

Nico Horner, they want me to give you a score better best t-shirt. We did there. See? We are never afraid to co-op. 104 of the score. Let's go. How about it? See, now that's a man that's going to be a talk show home someday. Afternoons on the score. Nico hits a ground ball. Fair, inside third down the left field line. Bouncing off the sidewalk.

0:22.0

Racing to third, Swanson.

0:23.6

It's a double for Nico.

0:25.7

Runners hit second and third, one down.

0:29.6

Nico Horner is off to a great start to his season, Speegs,

0:34.2

and you can hear the Cubs coming up in a few minutes here on the score.

0:39.2

He is right now, his slash line for this season is 316, 420, 9-11.

0:48.5

It's pretty ridiculous.

0:50.0

The man is slugging 491.

0:52.9

491, number one, on the Cubs.

0:55.6

He's the biggest and best slugger on the Cubs,

0:59.1

ahead of Ian Hap and Carson Kelly and Alex Bregman and Dansby Swanson and others.

1:05.8

And he is indeed hitting leadoff again today.

1:08.6

Cubs lineup is Horner, Bregman, Suzuki, Hap, Kelly, Swanson,

1:14.9

Miguel Amaya is the catcher, Kelly's playing first base. Pete Crowe Armstrong is the eight-hitter,

1:20.4

playing center, Matt Shaw in right field, the nine-hitter against the brilliant lefty Christopher

1:26.4

Sanchez, one of the best pitchers in baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies.

1:30.0

You would like to say something about Pete Carr Armstrong's placement in the lineup.

1:33.8

Well, I, you know, he's eight against the lefty. Great. I think he should be seven even against

1:39.2

Ritees, which he was yesterday. We played the cut from last year of Pete during his brilliant first half, saying

1:46.8

he loved being there at seven. I'm super comfortable there. I can, I can just hide and do my thing.

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