Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong describes errors on back-to-back days as 'genuinely laughable,' reflects on tumultuous week
Chicago's center fielder has been standing out for the wrong reasons of late, and he's well aware.
The Chicago Cubs have lost five games in a row and their grip on first place in the NL Central. The Milwaukee Brewers (29-18) seized the division lead with a three-game sweep, in which they outscored the Cubs 19-5. Chicago (29-21) is 2-9 in its past 11 games after authoring a pair of 10-game win streaks — a single-season feat the club hadn’t accomplished since 1935 — and sprinting out to a head-turning 27-12 start.
The Cubs are in a funk, especially center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. The fiery 24-year-old was understandably despondent on Wednesday after Chicago’s latest setback, a 5-0 defeat to the Brewers in the teams’ series finale. After all, Crow-Armstrong committed a ghastly error in the second inning that cost the Cubs three runs.
With runners advancing from first and second, he whiffed while trying to field a single to center. The ball rolled under and then past Crow-Armstrong’s glove. He made a bee-line toward the ivy to track it down, but the damage was done.
A zooming David Hamilton made it all the way around the bases for MLB’s latest Little League home run . That was Crow-Armstrong’s second error in as many days. Tough couple of days for PCA pic.