{"id":14365,"date":"2025-07-22T02:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14365\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:31:08","slug":"pete-crow-armstrong-knee-not-in-chicago-cubs-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14365\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Crow-Armstrong (knee) not in Chicago Cubs’ lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 21, 2025, 09:24 PM ET<\/p>\n

All-Star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> was not in the Chicago Cubs<\/a>‘ lineup Monday night because of soreness in his right knee.<\/p>\n

Cubs manager Craig Counsell told reporters before Monday’s home game against the Kansas City Royals<\/a> that Armstrong tweaked his knee Sunday against the Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He just banged it up [on a slide],” Counsell said. “Woke up [today] and it felt a little swollen. So, we’re just going to try to give him the day today, and hopefully back in there tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

It marks just the second time this season the National League leader in Wins Above Replacement has not played. Seiya Suzuki<\/a> made his debut in center field in Crow-Armstrong’s stead.<\/p>\n

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When asked if Crow-Armstrong was available to pinch-hit Monday night, Counsell said, “We’ll just see how the day goes.”<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong, 23, has been one of the majors’ most improved players this season. After compiling a .237 batting average with 10 homers and 27 stolen bases in 123 games as a rookie, he has a .270 average with 26 homers, 72 RBIs and 28 stolen bases this season. He’s the only player in the majors with at least 25 homers and 25 steals.<\/p>\n

Information from Field Level Media was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 21, 2025, 09:24 PM ET All-Star center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong was not in the Chicago Cubs‘ lineup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}