Chicago Cubs at Baltimore Orioles

BALTIMORE – There are only so many adjectives available to describe the kind of run that Pete Crow-Armstrong has been on over the past several weeks. The achievements keep stacking up and there are still nearly three months left for the Cubs’ star center fielder to continue adding eye-popping feats. Crow-Armstrong launched a pair of home runs to help the Cubs outslug the Orioles en route to a 9-7 win at Camden Yards on Wednesday night. In the process, he became only the third player in Cubs history to post a season with at least 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in back-to-back years. “It’s still a very young career,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “But he’s doing things that the greats in the game have done. They are small-timeframe accomplishments, but still great. And then, just the improvement that we’ve seen is so exciting for Cubs fans.” Crow-Armstrong's second multi-homer showing of the season powered a five-homer outburst – Michael Conforto, Carson Kelly and Seiya Suzuki also cleared the fence – to help Chicago to its 18th win in 24 games. Let’s break down the Crow-Armstrong’s latest feats in Wednesday’s win: **1\. PCA’s sprint to another 20-20 tour** No one in Cubs history reached 20 homers and 20 steals faster than Crow-Armstrong a year ago, when he did so in just 73 games. In fact, he was tied for fourth on baseball’s all-time list for fastest to 20-20 in a single season. It was increasingly inevitable that Crow-Armstrong would reach the milestone soon, and his moment arrived in the third inning Wednesday night. When Crow-Armstrong’s first shot off Orioles righty Dean Kremer cleared Camden Yards’ tall right-field wall, it gave him an even 20 homers on the season to go with his 23 stolen bases. He joined Sammy Sosa (1993-95) and Ryne Sandberg (‘90-91) as the only Cubs hitters in history to achieve a 20-20 showing in consecutive years. By doing so in his 92nd game this year, Crow-Armstrong now has the two fastest runs to 20-20 in Cubs history. The previous mark, which the center fielder beat last year, was 96 games by Sosa in ‘94.