<p>Homer, triple, double, single.</p><p>That’s what <b>Pete Crow-Armstrong</b> did to land himself in the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a>’ record books Monday, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs/2026/06/15/cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-hit-for-cycle-walk-off-win-rockies-pedro-ramirez-matt-shaw-shota-imanaga" >hitting for the cycle for the 13th time in club history</a>.</p><p>But manager <b>Craig Counsell</b>’s favorite moment from his center fielder’s big night?</p><p>That would be plate appearance No. 5, in which Crow-Armstrong drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.</p><p>A sac fly is one of baseball’s most boring ways to score a run. But it had Counsell jazzed postgame, not because it was an example of a player “doing the little things” or a key RBI in the game – though it was both, the RBI bringing the Cubs within a run an inning prior to their walk-off win – but because it showed Crow-Armstrong’s growth as a player.</p><p>Crow-Armstrong got the internet all riled up when, immediately after completing the cycle with a seventh-inning single, he was picked off first base.</p><p>“My excitement [over the cycle] was a little short lived,” Counsell laughed after the game.</p><p>Crow-Armstrong’s emotional reactions when things don’t go his way are well known to Cubs fans; they saw him slam enough bats into the ground during a second-half slump last summer.</p><p>But rather than let that pickoff eat him up and cloud his mind for the rest of the game, he moved on.</p><p>“That was a really good at-bat, and that’s a tough at-bat after you’ve done what you’ve done on the night,” Counsell said.