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ANAHEIM, Calif. – The last person to give Pete Crow-Armstrong an encouraging pat before his last at-bat Friday was Kyle Tucker, who’d snapped his personal month-long homerless streak in the first inning.
“I felt a little bit freed up for him,” Crow-Armstrong said after the Cubs’ 3-2 win Friday against the Angels. “And I think that honestly probably contributed to me taking my fourth at-bat after not really doing anything.”
In that fourth at-bat, Crow-Armstrong lifted a no-doubter into the right-field seats at Angel Stadium, giving the Cubs the lead in the top of the ninth inning.