This is unreal. I think in the back of our minds we knew that Pete Crow-Armstrong could one day develop into a great player and have a couple monster seasons, but he’s already a star at 23-years-old in what’s essentially his first full year in the majors. Friday night’s two-homer, six-RBI game once again showed how PCA is a unicorn.
First, before Crow-Armstrong hit the go-ahead and what turned out to be the game-winning grand slam in the seventh inning, he belted a two-run bomb off Reds’ ace Hunter Greene. That was PCA’s 13th home run of the season and it came on a 100mph fastball.
Sure, players hit home runs on pitches that are thrown in the 100mph range, but that homer by Crow-Armstrong against Greene in the fourth inning was the first of its kind in the Statcast era.
Marquee Sports Network analyst Lance Brozdowski revealed the significance of PCA’s big swing versus Cincinnati’s hard-throwing righty.
Unbelievable power coming from the Cubs center fielder, who didn’t just hit that ball out, but pulled the 100mph pitch that was on the outside corner 410 feet to right field.
PCA has been on fire since April 13. Since then, he leads MLB with 14 home runs and 40 RBI. With this unbelievable stretch PCA currently leads the National League with a 3.2 fWAR and only trails Aaron Judge in value.
Here’s another fun stat that you can annoy fans of other teams with. This 34-game stretch from Crow-Armstrong has literally never been accomplished by any player in MLB history since 1920, when the RBI officially became a stat.
We’re seeing a unicorn out there for the Cubs, who overall as a team are putting up unreal numbers of their own.
Friday’s 13-6 win marked the 11th time the Cubs have scored 10 or more runs in a game. That hasn’t been done by any Cubs team through its first 51 games since 1898!
The Cubs continue to feature the No. 1 scoring offense in baseball. They now have 306 runs, 17 more than the second-place Dodgers.
