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How Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong is addressing August slump

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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong borrowed a piece of wisdom from veteran Justin Turner while working through a recent slump.

“It’s not actually a process or a step-by-step or anything, — but to me it is,” Crow-Armstrong told the Sun-Times recently. “It’s, ‘You always check your timing and then your [bat] path.’”

Crow-Armstrong’s offensive production has been down in the month of August, after consistently coming through as one of the Cubs’ top hitters in each of the first four months of the season.

On Monday, he entered the Cubs’ series opener against the Angels with a .