Pete Crow-Armstrong, Alex Bregman light up Braves in Cubs' 8-4 win
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What was the overall outcome of the Cubs vs. Braves game?
Welcome into the show. Thanks for being with us. We are open to you. There
is a difference.
There is. We could get more into that later on in the show. Layla and I always love talking music, but we gotta get serious here. And we are like I said, we're open on the text line. When I say that, it's all relative, Layla. Why
do we need to? We just have to get on task. We have to get on. We have to get
on task would be the right way to say that. We don't have to ever be serious because it's sports. 312-644-6767. Keep those text messages coming, and every once in a while we let a phone call through as well. 312-644-6767. Quite a night again for the Chicago Cubs. It's really day-to-day in these manic Cubs episodes. The day before the sky was falling, and then we got Not what we needed last night. Yet another Pete Crow Armstrong evening. The Cubs beat the Braves 8-4. They win the series against an excellent team. PCA three for four with two home runs and a triple. He is up to 44 home runs on the season season. Seventh multi-homer game this year, 13th in his career. And he does. get to sweet swinging again. Breaks Billy Williams' record for Cubs lefty home runs in a season.
So the displa just when you think, okay, that's enough PCA. You've done enough. It's great. You've won you've won the MVP. And now it's like, is he gonna hit 50 home runs this year?
Well, that's that's it. It's now become the drive to perhaps fifty. We're still watching the stolen bases. I'm still hoping he gets to forty. Doesn't matter. And by the way, you know you know I'm watching. You know I'm watching the Kyle Schwarber PCA home run battle that is taking place. Schwarber with forty five, but his OPS is only eight seventy. PCA's is nine fifty six. How we doin'.
How did Pete Crow‑Armstrong’s historic 44‑home‑run season unfold in the win?
What it do.
How we doin'. That's
it. So just consider that part of it as well. Now PCA's been caught stealing seven times 'cause shoot or shoot. What? But I don't care. The and the strikeout numbers are remarkably different as well. Schwerber has two hundred and twelve strikeouts.
Is that tops in the league, by the way?
No, because of our friend Colson Montgomery.
Pretty close though, right? Yeah, we could do the strikeout
leaders in Major League Baseball. But uh and Colson's got some homers, as we know, and I'm worried about his health. Glad to hear that glad to hear that at least it's it's not broken according to an X ray, his forearm. But PCA's only got a hundred and seventy eight strikeouts. So that speaks to the OPS. You know me, I'm not I'm not this stat and only this stat matters. I'm like, okay, well how do you balance them against each other? Y this is what what is turning into I think a I I don't think it's a once in a lifetime thing. I don't think it's a w a generational thing, but how do you describe the season that P. Crow Armstrong is having relative to what we have seen? It's it is an M V P season, but is it more special than that?
And that's where I'm trying to get with this thought is I'm trying to figure out how to compare it.
I was thinking about this earlier, and we'll get even more into it later on in the show. There's no comp that I can think of in certainly with the Cubs. There's no comp for Pete Crow Armstrong ever. And I'm you know, going through all the guys who have had special seasons with the Cubs, MVP seasons, 40 home run guys, Billy Williams, uh obviously, and and Derek Lee, and Sammy Sosa, and Andre Dawson, like whoever you want to come up with. There's no comp. And the reason there's no comp is because there hasn't been a guy whose scouring report we didn't really know. Nobody knew that Pete Crow Armstrong was capable of hitting thirty home runs, which he did last year, right? Right. Let alone hitting forty four home runs.
Like I can't think of it. I don't even know if I could think of the comp in Major League Baseball. And maybe somebody has the answer to that. Three one two six forty four sixty seven, sixty seven. A
guy who we didn't think would be a quote home run hitter who became a home run hitter.
Yes, there are players like him who are 40, 40 capable, who who were five tool players who could do it all.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What was the overall outcome of the Cubs vs. Braves game?
0:00–1:49
2
How did Pete Crow‑Armstrong’s historic 44‑home‑run season unfold in the win?
1:49–5:25
3
Why do the hosts compare PCA to Jimmy Butler and other unexpected stars?
5:25–10:50
4
What did the live Cubs broadcast team say about PCA’s performance?
10:50–13:09
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