Javier Assad and Jameson Taillon should be returning from injuries as Michael Soroka recently went on the injured list.

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Assad (oblique) struck out two and allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits and one walk across 3.2 innings in his rehab start Wednesday with Triple-A Iowa.

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Cubs right-hander Andrew Kittredge threw a slider to Tyler Stephenson that started just off the plate and kept moving away.

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Assad allowed two runs on five hits in 3 2/3 innings in the Cubs’ 8-6 win. While he primarily relies on a cutter, sinker and four-seam fastball, his slider generates the type of swing and miss ...

Javier Assad threw a career-high seven innings in Friday night’s 6-2 win for the Chicago Cubs. The 26-year-old retired the last 10 batters he faced as he held Toronto to just one run and four hits.

Chicago Cubs right fielder Seiya Suzuki (27) heads to the dugout after grounding out to end the game in a 6-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Wrigley Field on Sept. 7, 2023, in Chicago.

Left-hander Justin Steele, who has been in the Cubs’ system with Assad since they signed him out of Mexico in 2015, was just as unsurprised as Mervis. “That’s Assad, baby,” Steele said.