{"id":27002,"date":"2023-04-15T23:32:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/watch-top-cubs-prospect-gets-triple-thanks-to-unbelievable-slide\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:32:30","slug":"watch-top-cubs-prospect-gets-triple-thanks-to-unbelievable-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/watch-top-cubs-prospect-gets-triple-thanks-to-unbelievable-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Top Cubs prospect gets triple thanks to unbelievable slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pete Crow-Armstrong is out here making Trea Turner look like an amateur.<\/p>\n<p>Crow-Armstrong, a top prospect in the Chicago Cubs organization, went viral over the weekend for his physics-defying slide during a game. While playing for the Double-A Tennessee Smokies, Crow-Armstrong smacked an extra-base hit off the center field wall. He tried to turn the hit into a triple but was beaten by the relay throw by quite a bit. Unfazed, Crow-Armstrong put his thinking cap on and suddenly stopped short after going into his slide. The unconventional move caught the third baseman off guard and allowed Crow-Armstrong to spring up and sneak his foot onto the bag before the tag could be applied.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the wild clip (where Crow-Armstrong added in a JR Smith-esque celebration after the stunt for good measure):<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/watch_top_cubs_prospect_gets_triple_thanks_to_unbelievable_slide\/s1_127_38702452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Crow-Armstrong is out here making Trea Turner look like an amateur. Crow-Armstrong, a top prospect in the Chicago Cubs organization, went viral over the weekend for his physics-defying slide during a game. While playing for the Double-A Tennessee Smokies, Crow-Armstrong smacked an extra-base hit off the center field wall. He tried to turn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27003,"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-27002","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\/27002","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=27002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}