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Pete Crow-Armstrong stays red hot in blowout victory

Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

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Pete Crow-Armstrong went 2-for-4 with a homer, three RBI, and two runs scored as the Cubs defeated the Padres 23-3 on Wednesday afternoon.

Chicago’s 23 runs are the most they’ve scored in a game since 1995, and their eight homers tied a franchise record. PCA has been on an absolute heater lately, and he finished June with a .381/.468/.781 triple slash line before homering on the first day of July. The former Mets prospect has more than doubled his walk rate from last season, and he’s now up to 19 homers and 21 stolen bases on the year. Crow-Armstrong isn’t running quite as aggressively as he did in 2025, but all the extra times on base could lead to him beating the 35 thefts he accumulated last season.

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Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

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Pete Crow-Armstrong will not compete in next month’s All-Star Home Run Derby.

Crow-Armstrong has vowed to participate at some point in his career, but it won’t be during this year’s Midsummer Classic. The 24-year-old fantasy force has been one of the hottest hitters in baseball since the start of June, crushing 10 homers across 25 contests during that span.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong stole a pair of bases in an extra-inning win over the Brewers on Sunday.

With the pair of steals, PCA is now up to 20 on the season. That puts him just under a 40 stolen-base pace, and the way he’s gotten on base — he drew three walks Sunday — suggests that he’s going to have a chance to reach that figure in 2026.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a go-ahead double in the 10th inning to give the Cubs a 4-3 win over the Mets on Thursday.

Crow-Armstrong also added a single. The 24-year-old doubled home Matt Shaw in the 10th to give The Cugs their lead and ultimately the victory. He’s doubled 13 times in 2026, and he’s up to 45 runs driven in on the season, putting him right around a 90-RBI pace. After a very slow start to the season, Crow-Armstrong has been brilliant with the bat. The question is if he can consistently be this level of player through a full season. If he can, he’s going to be one of the best players in baseball for a long time when you consider how great he is with the glove.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a three-run homer and walked twice against the Mets on Tuesday.

Crow-Armstrong was also involved in the game’s most controversial play; he tried to steal second on what was ball four to Michael Busch in the seventh, only to be called out after touching and then coming off the bag on his slide. Of course, PCA was entitled to second base with the walk, but once he came off the bag on the slide, that protection ended. Craig Counsell was tossed out for arguing the play, but technically, it was all called correctly. The Cubs went on to win 9-6 anyway.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer and a walk against the Blue Jays on Saturday.

Crow-Armstrong’s tear at the plate did not stop on Saturday against the Blue Jays. After drawing a walk in the fourth inning, he took Lazaro Estrada deep for a two-run blast in the sixth. He later added a base hit in the eighth to reach for a third time. The 24-year-old outfielder is now hitting .286/.363/.521 with 16 homers, 47 runs scored, 40 RBI, and 18 steals across 329 plate appearances.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong went 3-for-3 with a run scored, an RBI, and two stolen bases as the Cubs handled the Blue Jays on Friday.

He was pulled for Justin Dean after five plate appearances as the Cubs made the score a little too lopsided. We doubt fantasy managers are too upset with the results. Crow-Armstrong, hitting .237/.325/.388 at the end of May, is now hitting .283/.359/.510 and has added eight homers and five stolen bases over the last 15 games while slugging .937. Enjoy the ride.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong went 1-for-4 with a solo home run and a walk in a chaotic 8-6 win over the Rockies on Wednesday.

This guy is on fire. Crow-Armstrong has now homered in three consecutive games, four times in his last five, and eight times already in June. This one was funny too, sneaking just inside the right field foul pole. At the time, this gave the Cubs an 8-1 lead in a game they eventually only won 8-6. Nevertheless, Crow-Armstrong’s slow start to the season feels like a distant memory as he’s now one of the only players in the league on a 30 homer, 30 steal pace with a .276 batting average that’s nearly 30 points higher than where it wound up last season. He is a bonafide superstar.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, a home run and two RBI against the Rockies on Monday.

Crow-Armstrong started the Cubs’ half of the first inning with a home run off Michael Lorenzen, his sixth home run of June already. He then started the Cubs’ half of the third inning with a triple. With the hard parts out of the way now, he doubled in the fifth inning before clinching the cycle with a single in the seventh inning. PCA is hitting .277 with 13 home runs, 43 runs scored, 35 RBI and 16 stolen bases.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Armstrong went 3-for-5 with a leadoff homer and a double as the Cubs bested the Giants 6-1 on Saturday.

PCA’s fifth homer in June got things off to a great start against Trevor McDonald, and the Cubs never looked back. Crow-Armstrong is now up to .263/.341/.462 for the year. He was hitting .236/.306/.369 on this date a month ago.
Pete Crow-Armstrong

CHC Center Fielder #4

Pete Crow-Amstrong homered in the sixth and ninth innings Saturday before the Cubs topped the Giants 3-2 in 10.

Crow-Armstrong kept the Cubs alive, with his second homer tying things up with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. After a scoreless top of the 10th, the Cubs won the game right away on a Michael Busch single and an error in the bottom of the inning. Automatic runner Dansby Swanson was going to be held at third on the shot to right, but Victor Bericoto booted the ball to allow Swanson to score. PCA now has four homers in his last four games and an 11-game hitting streak. He’s up to .259/.343/.449 for the season.

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Reds OF prospect Héctor Rodríguez went 2-for-2 with two walks, two home runs, and three RBI for Triple-A Louisville on Tuesday.

The 22-year-old is now hitting .290/.369/.549 with 21 home runs, 56 RBI, and six steals in 84 games at Triple-A. He also has a solid 75/40 K/BB ratio. He’s played both corner outfield spots regularly this season, but it seems unlikely that he gets a chance in Cincinnati this year unless the team decides to move on from slumping JJ Bleday.
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Oneil Cruz

PIT Center Fielder #15
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Oneil Cruz (hand fracture) has begun swinging a bat.

Pirates general manager Ben Cherington said that he believed Cruz would be back soon after the All-Star break, so the fact that he’s swinging a bat now would make sense with that timeline. He will need to progress to facing live pitching and then begin rehab games next week or the week after. It’s looking like the Pirates will get their star back before the end of the month.
- Eric Samulski

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Lance McCullers Jr.

HOU Starting Pitcher #43
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Lance McCullers (shoulder) allowed four runs (three earned) on three hits in four innings for Triple-A Sugar Land on Tuesday

McCullers also walked three and struck out four while throwing 43 of his 77 pitches for strikes. HIs cutter averaged 88.4 mph and he only threw three total four-seam fastballs. He posted a 25 percent whiff rate and just 56 percent strike rate, so it wasn’t a pristine effort. However, his pitch count is built up enough that he could be an option for the Astros rotation after the All-Star break.
- Eric Samulski

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Gabriel Hughes

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The Rockies will start Gabriel Hughes on Wednesday and push Ryan Feltner back to Thursday.

Feltner probably won’t mind, since he’ll now be facing the Giants, rather than the Dodgers. It’ll be Hughes’ first major league start after he debuted with three scoreless innings for a save in 15-3 game last Friday.
- Matthew Pouliot

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Nick Loftin

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Nick Loftin homered and doubled twice as the Royals bested the Mets 16-12 on Tuesday.

As goes Loftin, so go the Royals. This makes seven times this season that the Royals have scored 10 runs with him in the starting lineup, and he’s 17-for-33 with three homers and 14 RBI in those games. He’s hit .177 with one homer and 15 RBI in his remaining 49 appearances.
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Seth Lugo

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Seth Lugo was slammed for nine runs — six earned — in 4 1/3 innings by the Mets on Tuesday.

Lugo made his own trouble in the first, when he committed the first of the Royals’ three errors on a three-run infield debacle. After that, though, it was mostly just him getting hit hard. A.J. Ewing hit a two-run homer in the second, and Juan Soto delivered a three-run blast in the fourth. It’s the third time this year that Lugo has given up at least seven runs. He’s allowed two earned runs or fewer in 10 of 18 turns, but the blowups have left him with a 4.56 ERA. He’ll face the Orioles on Sunday.
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After coming in to start the second, Kodai Senga gave up four runs and walked four in three innings Tuesday against the Royals.

Senga left with the Mets up 9-4, which put him in line for a rather undeserved victory, but then the Royals scored 12 runs off Austin Warren and Matt Seelinger between the fifth and seventh innings. That might have made Senga look better in comparison, but four walks while generating just six whiffs isn’t a good combination. He’ll be available to pitch Sunday against the Red Sox, but it remains to see what kind of form that will take. The Mets would probably go with a bullpen game if they get length from Freddy Peralta on Saturday.
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Lane Thomas

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Lane Thomas went 3-for-4 with two doubles, four RBI and two walks versus the Mets on Tuesday.

Thomas pulverized the ball tonight, with his three hits all leaving the bat at 106-108 mph. His last double would have been a homer in 12 ballparks. This gives Thomas five doubles and a homer in his last five games, a span that’s raised his OPS from .653 to .720. Despite his usual struggles against right-handers, the Royals have been mostly forced to treat him as a regular with Kyle Isbel and Vinnie Pasquantino out, and he hasn’t fared too badly. However, with just four steals in seven tries, his fantasy upside isn’t what it used to be.
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A.J. Ewing finished 4-for-4 with a homer, three RBI, a walk, a steal and four runs scored in the loss to the Royals on Tuesday.

What more can a guy do? It’s his first four-hit, four-run scored or three-RBI game as a major leaguer, and it was enough to take his OPS from .742 to .790. Ewing will probably do a lot of sitting against lefties after Luis Robert Jr. returns, but he deserves to stay in the lineup against righties, and the Mets outfield defense would be pretty formidable with him playing alongside Robert and Carson Benge on days that Juan Soto serves as a DH.
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Carson Benge went 2-for-3 with two walks, a steal and two runs scored Tuesday against the Royals.

Benge’s first hit, which opened the scoring in the first, was the most Little League of Little League home runs. Seth Lugo handled the grounder to the right of the mound but then threw wildly past first, after which first baseman Jac Caglianone threw wildly past third and third baseman Nick Loftin threw wildly past home, allowing two baserunners and Benge to all score. They should have just ended the game right then, but the Royals shook off probably the most embarrassing sequence of the 2026 season and ended up winning 16-12.
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