{"id":344445,"date":"2025-09-27T03:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/344445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:19:11","slug":"pete-crow-armstrong-reaches-30-30-30-as-cubs-pound-cardinals-12-1-to-close-in-on-top-nl-wild-card-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/344445\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Crow-Armstrong reaches 30-30-30 as Cubs pound Cardinals 12-1 to close in on top NL wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a two-run shot<\/a> to become the first Cubs player with 30 homers, 30 doubles and 30 stolen bases in a season, Seiya Suzuki iced the game with a grand slam and Chicago pounded the St. Cardinals 12-1 on Friday to close in on the top National League wild card.<\/p>\n

Michael Busch hit his team-leading 32nd homer and had two RBIs as the playoff-bound Cubs won for just the second time in eight games and trimmed their magic number to one for securing home-field advantage in their opening-round playoff series against San Diego. Game 1 of that series is Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Suzuki\u2019s second career grand slam, capping Chicago\u2019s seven-run seventh, made him the third Cub with 30 homers this season. Nico Hoerner also went deep.<\/p>\n

Colin Rea (11-7) allowed two hits in 5 2\/3 scoreless innings, striking out seven. Four relievers followed to complete a five-hitter.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old Crow-Armstrong joined Sammy Sosa as the second Cub to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases. He casually tossed his bat after hitting a high curveball from Miles Mikolas (8-11) 396 feet into the right-center bleachers to give Chicago a 3-0 lead in the fourth.<\/p>\n

Hoerner hit a solo shot in the first off Mikolas, who allowed four runs on four hits in five innings.<\/p>\n

The Cubs reinstated slugger Kyle Tucker from the injured list (left calf). He batted fourth as the designated hitter, and singled and walked in five plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Chris Roycroft hit Crow-Armstrong with a pitch above the knee after giving up Suzuki\u2019s grand slam. Crow-Armstrong fell, but walked off the impact.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong\u2019s homer was only his second in 29 games and third in 55. He has 35 steals and 37 doubles.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (8-3, 4.35 ERA) faces Cubs RHP Jameson Taillon (10-7, 3.78) on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a two-run shot to become the first Cubs player with 30 homers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,4395,158,161,1726,5163,29,37,4392,123,3736,4,256,2305,7094,33,35,5353,137,105,185,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-344445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-chris-roycroft","13":"tag-colin-rea","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-il-state-wire","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-kyle-tucker","18":"tag-michael-busch","19":"tag-michael-mcgreevy","20":"tag-miles-mikolas","21":"tag-missouri","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-mlb-baseball","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mo-state-wire","26":"tag-nico-hoerner","27":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","28":"tag-sammy-sosa","29":"tag-san-diego","30":"tag-seiya-suzuki","31":"tag-sports","32":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115274106078286971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}