CHICAGO — The last two days at Wrigley Field have been absolute theater.

And, luckily for Chicago Cubs fans, it’s come with a pair of wins over the reigning World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Cubs won another thriller over the Dodgers, 7-6, in front of 37,150 fans at the Friendly Confines. The win gives the Cubs (16-10) the season series over the Dodgers (16-9), which could prove crucial in playoff seeding at the end of the year.

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Here are three takeaways from the win that completed the sweep:

P-C-A, H-O-T

Chants of “P-C-A!” broke out in the bleachers as the Cubs took the field for the top of the fifth. Pete Crow-Armstrong was running out just after hitting a go-ahead, opposite field, three-run home run that gave the Cubs the lead.

The 23-year-old center fielder is on an absolute heater – he added an RBI single in the fifth, finished 3-for-4 and is hitting .472 with a 1.570 OPS over his last nine games.

He was sixth in Wins Above Replacement, per FanGraphs, entering Wednesday at 1.5, just behind his teammate Kyle Tucker. Cubs fans might be witnessing a breakout campaign from the former top prospect.

It’s not just the results, though – it’s how he’s putting up these numbers. The opposite-field blast was a 94-mph sinker well below the zone that he drove the other way. Crow-Armstrong had an opposite-field double over the weekend that showed his ability to drive the ball to all fields.

“It’s not one moment, it’s a culmination of getting better,” Counsell said on Sunday. “Pete hit a double on a changeup to left field [on Saturday]. It’s not ‘the moment,’ but it just shows you, would he have done that in May of last year? Right? I remember I went up right up to [assistant hitting coach John] Mallee and just said, ‘We’re making progress.’

“And that’s what you want to do. You want to make progress. So, things like that, I think, show you you’re making progress.”

The Cubs will gladly take that growth. It shows the success of player development at the major league level. Tucker is a star player and is expected to put up gaudy numbers this season. But Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer stressed all winter how the team needs to have other players outperform expectations to have “special” seasons.

Crow-Armstrong is flashing the potential to be one of those players.

Quality Start*

Matthew Boyd allowed three earned runs over six innings – a quality start. But the left-hander allowed six runs on the night – three were unearned due to an error he committed in a three-run fifth inning. Boyd induced a comebacker to No. 9 hitter Austin Barnes with a runner on first base. He fielded the ball and threw it high to Nico Hoerner at second base, allowing both runners to reach safely.

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Boyd wasn’t at his best, but – the fifth inning notwithstanding – he limited the big rally. He was in a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the third inning and allowed just two runs. In the sixth, he had runners on second and third with two outs and Shohei Ohtani up to the plate. Boyd induced a popout to escape the jam and preserve the one-run lead.

The 34-year-old will probably say he should have handled that grounder from Barnes better, but he kept the Cubs in the game otherwise. That means a lot against a team like the Dodgers.

The Cubs need the members of their rotation to step up after Justin Steele’s season-ending surgery. So far, Boyd has done that. He has a 2.54 ERA and 1.38 WHIP in 28.1 innings this season – a solid contribution from a starter who made just eight appearances last year after returning from Tommy John surgery.

Shohei at bay

Ohtani is the one player that can beat any team.

Well, except maybe the Cubs this season.

The reigning NL MVP went 1-for-5 in the loss and finishes the season 4-for-25 (.160) against the Cubs. He’s hitting .302 against every other team this season. The Cubs have had his number and that’s a pretty darn good one to have.

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The Dodgers are a loaded team – they have three future Hall of Famers in their lineup (Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts the others) but limiting the best slugger in baseball is a massive deal.