Cubs swept by Brewers as errors and injury concerns mount
David Banks-Imagn Images If you’re looking for a microcosm of where the Cubs are at right now, look to what should have been a routine single to center field in the second inning of Wednesday night’s game against the Brewers. It might have driven in a run under typical circumstances, but it’s also possible David Hamilton’s base hit would have loaded the bases and left the scoreboard untouched, given that Pete Crow-Armstrong was fielding the ball. Instead, this happened: This is not great pic.
twitter. com/aI67cvrRLQ — CHGO Cubs (@CHGO_Cubs) May 21, 2026 When one of the best center fielders in baseball — and potentially one of the best defensive center fielders ever — makes an error like that, you know things have gone awry. But that’s more or less how things have gone for the Cubs for the past week and a half.
Wednesday’s 5-0 loss to Milwaukee sealed a sweep at the hands of the Cubs’ most important division rival. It was, quite literally, a comedy of errors. Crow-Armstrong’s miscue was the second error of that inning; one of the runs that scored on the Hamilton single turned Little League home run was thanks to a catcher’s interference call that put Sal Frelick on base.
In the third inning, William Contreras advanced to third on a throwing error while he was stealing second base, putting him in easy position to score on a Jake Bauers single. In two innings, the Cubs granted the Brewers three unearned runs. For Pete Crow-Armstrong, it was his second error in as many days.
He dropped a fly ball in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s loss, and then let Hamilton’s single get by him on Wednesday. “Yesterday and today are genuinely laughable,” Crow-Armstrong said. “One thing I can fall back on is that it’s never really a lack of focus, but trying too hard and trying to make up for the lack of production that I’ve given this team and this city.
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