{"id":286162,"date":"2026-04-26T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:31:09","slug":"chicago-cubs-and-a-budding-rivalry-with-the-los-angeles-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286162\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs and a budding rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 Pete Crow-Armstrong experienced what he considers a first in his career Friday night at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

Typically used to Chicago Cubs fans\u2019 \u201cPCA!\u201d chants, or even the sarcastic cheers from Milwaukee Brewers fans after he dropped a fly ball last year, Crow-Armstrong received a different reception at his hometown ballpark this weekend.<\/p>\n

When the Dodgers public address announcer read the Cubs starting lineup, Dodgers fans vehemently booed Crow-Armstrong, a trend that continued before each at-bat and again Saturday when he was announced pregame. The vitriol stems from Crow-Armstrong\u2019s offseason comments to Chicago Magazine that Dodgers fans to go games \u201cto take pictures and whatever,\u201d unlike Cubs fans who \u201care paying attention, they care.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s fully embraced the heat from Dodgers fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boos are fun, I\u2019m glad people are showing up and giving it back, for sure,\u201d Crow-Armstrong told the Tribune on Saturday. \u201cIt\u2019s what you get when you want to say stuff in the media, and it\u2019s the beautiful part about sports is people get to create their own opinions, and they get to really be about their fandom for their team, and they get to show that in a lot of different ways. So, the boos are fun. I guess I\u2019m going to have to get used to that, it was for every at-bat and that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a hard sport to back comments like that up. So it\u2019s just a nice opportunity for me to not go out there and try and force stuff. And I get a lot of joy out of running the ball down, too, so that kept me in (the game) as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Crow-Armstrong walked off the field following the Cubs\u2019 6-4 win Friday<\/a>, rallying to score all their runs in the final three innings, he shouted toward the seats behind the dugout, \u201cWhere are they?\u201d Crow-Armstrong said the security team had to kick out multiple Dodgers fans during Friday\u2019s game: \u201cMy point got proved. We tied the game, people started fighting each other and getting kicked out, like, this is how it goes here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"CubsCubs third baseman Alex Bregman points to the dugout after hitting the tying home run during the eighth inning against the Dodgers on Friday, April 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Ryan Sun\/AP)<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong won\u2019t shy away from that type of scrutiny, and the best players step up in those moments. Third baseman Alex Bregman has dealt with boos for years, linked to his time with the Houston Astros that coincided with the sign-stealing scandal in the 2017 World Series, which they won against the Dodgers in seven games. Bregman wasn\u2019t fazed by it, slugging a game-tying home run in the eighth inning Friday for his first marquee moment in a Cubs uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re playing against probably unanimously the best-regarded team in baseball, and I think it\u2019s important to recognize that we feel like we belong in that same conversation,\u201d Crow-Armstrong said. \u201cAnd getting to play three fun games like this in late April is something to appreciate.\u201d<\/p>\n

President of baseball operations Jed Hoyer believes it would be dangerous to put too much meaning into an April game, even as one as thrilling as the Cubs\u2019 comeback win Friday night to extend their winning streak to 10 games. But the matchup instead provided a great example of how exciting a game can be when two teams featuring stars and athleticism around the diamond put together a great performance.<\/p>\n

The Cubs know if they want to make a deep postseason run in October, it likely at some point would mean facing the Dodgers. They\u2019re embracing the atmosphere this weekend at Dodgers Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime you come in here, honestly, it\u2019s a great environment, this place will be sold out every day, they say back-to-back World Series champions about 90 times a game \u2014 which they should, which they absolutely should \u2014 and it\u2019s great,\u201d Hoyer said Saturday. \u201cAnd it reminds you this is the standard. If you\u2019re going to do anything, you\u2019re going to have to go through this team that is fantastic and has Hall of Fame talent after Hall of Fame talent coming up to the plate or going out to the mound.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, yeah, this is the standard, and this is the place you have to be able to win games, so I think it\u2019s a lot of fun for our guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Pete Crow-Armstrong experienced what he considers a first in his career Friday night at Dodger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[51392,2845,122432,122595,48,52,51,47,53,50,49,91630],"class_list":{"0":"post-286162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-dansby-swanson","11":"tag-jed-hoyer","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}