{"id":261340,"date":"2026-09-07T03:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/pete-crow-armstrong-makes-cubs-mlb-history-by-joining-40-hr-club\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:04:52","slug":"pete-crow-armstrong-makes-cubs-mlb-history-by-joining-40-hr-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/pete-crow-armstrong-makes-cubs-mlb-history-by-joining-40-hr-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Crow-Armstrong makes Cubs, MLB history by joining 40-HR club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Furthering his MVP case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/pete_crow_armstrong\/729071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Crow-Armstrong\u00a0<\/a>made history in multiple ways despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/chicago_cubs\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>&#8216; loss on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though it didn&#8217;t end up making a difference in the game, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/miami_marlins\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Marlins<\/a> took care of the Cubs 10-3, Crow-Armstrong took his 2026 season to a new level with one swing of the bat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Pete Crow-Armstrong joined the 40-HR club on Sunday\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>His solo shot to deep right field tied in the top of the fifth inning was his 40th of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now at 40, Crow-Armstrong has accomplished more than just extending his career-high \u2014 his previous best was the 31 he hit last season. He&#8217;s now two away from tying Billy Williams&#8217; 1970 mark for the franchise record for the most home runs in a season by a left-handed hitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Crow-Armstrong reached multiple levels of Cubs, MLB history with one swing<\/h2>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. Crow-Armstrong is just five from breaking the legendary Ernie Banks&#8217; Cubs record for the most homers by a player 24-years-old or younger. Banks connected on 44 in 1956.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/pete_crow_armstrong_makes_cubs_mlb_history_by_joining_40_hr_club\/s1_13132_44268569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furthering his MVP case, Pete Crow-Armstrong\u00a0made history in multiple ways despite the Chicago Cubs&#8216; loss on Sunday.\u00a0 Even though it didn&#8217;t end up making a difference in the game, as the Miami Marlins took care of the Cubs 10-3, Crow-Armstrong took his 2026 season to a new level with one swing of the bat.\u00a0 Pete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}