Craig Counsel, manager of the Chicago cub, admitted that he was having fun to watch the Pete Crow-Armystrong game recently-and for a good reason.
Crow-Armystrong hit two homers-a seventh innings of six runs includes a Go-forward Grand Slam-and went into six runs for the second time in a week in a week in the 13–6 win of the cub on Cincinnati Reds on Friday.
COUNSELL said she hopes to look more than Cro-Armestrong on Saturday afternoon when the cub continues her three-game series in Cincinnati.
Chicago has won six of their last seven matches.
“There is no question that some things like Peat are doing very specific,” COUNSELL said. “He does some things that other people cannot do, and it is fun to look.”
Crow-Armystrong, who is batting with 14 Homer and 45 RBI this season, started a two-run homer in the fourth innings on Friday before killing his Grand Slam in the seventh.
In the seventh, Vishal Drive lowered the right field line and hit the foul pole, while Crow-Arcestrong was watching his flight in the batsman’s box. After taking the ball out of the pole, he threw his bat, tossed his chest like Tarzan and shouted and shook all the ways around the hideouts before his smiling colleagues grew on the plate of the house.
“No clue. No clue,” Crow-Armestrong said that when asked what was happening in his mind when the ball hit the pole dishonestly. “It was good. The deities were on my side.”
COUNSELL said, “I really thought it was appropriate, but when it was curved, I was a little nervous,” COUNSELL said. “I mean, he is just (this) very good. The ball, it seems that it explodes with his bat. It is just different.”
Crow-Armestout also scored six runs in a 13–3 win over White Sox on 16 May.
“It can be my favorite game that we played this year,” he said about Friday’s competition. “They got hot. (Starter Matthew Boyd) put us there, and we haven’t left yet. I think it’s a big part that we have been all year.”
This was the third multi-home game this season for Crow-Armestrong. Not bad for a player who is more known for his standout outfield defense and disgrace.
“We are lucky to be lucky to look at something like this,” COUNSELL said. “It is a very funny player to see. To take his game to another level, at the age of 23, it’s fun to see.”
Right-handed Colin Ri (3–0, 2.38 ERA) will try to win the series to the cub on Saturday. He will be opposed by left-arm Andrew Abbott (3–0, 1.80).
5-0 with REA 5-0 5–0 with a career showcase (seven beginnings), 3–0 to 3-0 with 5.52 ERA in Great American Ball Park.
Abbott on Sunday allowed four hits in five shutouts in a 3–1 win over Cleveland in its last beginning. He is 1–0 with 3.68 ERA in three careers, which begins against the cub.
Cincinnati manager Terry Frankona said Reds needs to move forward quickly with a disappointing defeat of Friday, his team’s third consecutive defeat.
Frankona said, “It doesn’t matter, perhaps, how much (tonight) rates are on the scale of injury.” “We lost, and we didn’t want, so we have gathered again, find a way to defeat them tomorrow.”
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