{"id":81927,"date":"2025-07-22T00:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81927\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:52:52","slug":"pete-crow-armstrong-sits-monday-rhp-ben-brown-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81927\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Crow-Armstrong sits Monday, RHP Ben Brown recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Cubs<\/a> are hopeful Pete Crow-Armstrong\u2019s<\/a> absence from the lineup will be limited.<\/p>\n

Entering Monday\u2019s series opener against the Kansas City Royals, Crow-Armstrong had started all but one game for the Cubs this season as the 23-year-old All-Star became a staple in the middle of their order.<\/p>\n

His ability to play every day while delivering elite defense and taking his offensive production to another level this year has been valuable. However, a bruised right knee kept Crow-Armstrong out of the lineup for Monday\u2019s game against the Royals.<\/p>\n

Manager Craig Counsell described Crow-Armstrong as day-to-day and hopes he is back in the lineup Tuesday. The knee felt a little swollen after Crow-Armstrong woke up Monday, Counsell said, so they wanted to give him the day off. It\u2019s not exactly certain when he banged it up during Sunday\u2019s game against Boston<\/a>, but, looking at replays, Counsell believes it likely happened during the rundown in the second inning when he awkwardly slid into third base.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong was tagged out by Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet, after which he and Counsell argued that Crochet obstructed the base on the sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s why it was a blocking-the-bag situation because the slide was clearly altered,\u201d Counsell said Monday. \u201cIf you watch the slide and replay, it\u2019s not a normal-looking slide, and further reason that was blocking the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seiya Suzuki<\/a> made his first career start in center field Monday night with Crow-Armstrong sidelined. Counsell opted to go with Suzuki at the position rather than Ian Happ, who has played 240 big-league games in center field, including 199 starts, though none since 2022 (three games, 12 innings). Both players got limited game reps in center field during spring training.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a scenario we want to consider a lot, obviously, just because we want Pete in there,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cIn the end, just leaving Ian where he\u2019s at and just putting Seiya out there \u2014 Seiya has been running around there a little bit during (batting) practices and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ChicagoChicago Cubs starting pitcher Ben Brown delivers to the Milwaukee Brewers in the first inning of a game at Wrigley Field in Chicago on June 17, 2025. (Chris Sweda\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n

The Cubs opted for an opener Monday with reliever Ryan Brasier getting the start. Right-hander Ben Brown was recalled before the game, giving the Cubs a multi-inning option to follow Brasier. The Cubs optioned reliever Ethan Roberts.<\/p>\n

The Cubs sent Brown to Triple-A Iowa last month to give him a reset and a break in his workload to help manage his innings. Brown made two starts with Iowa and allowed one run over nine innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pitched very well, very efficient in both outings, did exactly what he wanted to do,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a new pitch, there\u2019s nothing new happening there. He\u2019s got to execute better, it\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs are hopeful Pete Crow-Armstrong\u2019s absence from the lineup will be limited. Entering Monday\u2019s series opener…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[5438,960,1271,1816,5386,1818,1284,1277,1272],"class_list":{"0":"post-81927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-ben-brown","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-craig-counsell","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-kansas-city-royals","15":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","16":"tag-wrigley-field"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114894156688491976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}