{"id":116885,"date":"2025-09-03T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:55:07","slug":"cubs-crow-armstrong-sits-again-for-physical-mental-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116885\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs’ Crow-Armstrong sits again for ‘physical mental break’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesse RogersSep 4, 2025, 09:42 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n

CHICAGO — Cubs<\/a> center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> will get his second consecutive game off Wednesday, with manager Craig Counsell saying he wants to give him a “physical and mental” break amid his struggles in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong, 23, wasn’t in the starting lineup against the Braves on Wednesday after coming off the bench to play defense late in Tuesday’s game. The Cubs are off Thursday, giving Crow-Armstrong a full three days between starts.<\/p>\n

“We’re giving him a real break,” Counsell said before Wednesday’s series finale against the Braves. “Just to give him a physical and mental break, and then going into the last 3\u00bd weeks of the season, hopefully a little bit refreshed.”<\/p>\n

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Crow-Armstrong is hitting .212 with a .624 OPS since the All-Star break, but he has struggled even more over the past month, hitting .163 with only five extra-base hits and five walks to 29 strikeouts since Aug.1.<\/p>\n

“I looked at this early in the [recent] road trip, thinking where could we get Pete a break,” Counsell said. “As the road trip continued, it became apparent that we should use this opportunity to give him a break.”<\/p>\n

The last six games of the Cubs’ nine-game trip were played in spacious stadiums in San Francisco and Denver, where Crow-Armstrong covered a lot of ground in the outfield. He went 6-for-35 during the trip before getting Tuesday and Wednesday off.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully it’s a reset for Pete,” Counsell said.<\/p>\n

Super-utility player Willi Castro<\/a> will start in Crow-Armstrong’s place in center against the Braves on Wednesday, and regular designated hitter Seiya Suzuki<\/a> is starting right field in place of Kyle Tucker<\/a> who left Tuesday’s game because of tightness in his left calf. Counsell said the team would have an update on Tucker’s status before Friday’s game against the Washington Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newly acquired switch hitter Carlos Santana<\/a> will get his first start with the Cubs, taking Suzuki’s place as the designated hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersSep 4, 2025, 09:42 AM CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-116885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}