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Cubs rookie Pete Crow-Armstrong just turned in one of the most eye-popping plays of the MLB season

6 months agoTony Andracki

BREAKING NEWS: Pete Crow-Armstrong is fast.

Very fast.

Very, very…you get the idea.

In the top of the 3rd inning during Friday night’s 6-3 win, the Cubs rookie center fielder lined a ball that was just barely out of the reach of Marlins right fielder Jesus Sanchez.

The ball then caromed off the right field wall away from Sanchez and Crow-Armstrong was off to the races.

Catch the full highlight on the Marquee Sports Network app.

“I was so glad Willie [Cubs third base coach Willie Harris] sent him,” Craig Counsell said during an in-game interview on the Marquee Sports Network broadcast. “It was a great baseball play, really. They made a good relay and made the play pretty close. As soon as the ball kicked away from the right fielder, you knew it was a possibility and then it was fun to watch, wasn’t it?”

It was not only an absolutely electric play but it was the fastest a major league player has gone from home-to-home this season (per Statcast) – 14 seconds. He reached a top speed of 30.4 feet per second.

It was also the 3rd-fastest home-to-home since Statcast began in 2015.

Ian Happ later homered in the same inning – though his blast carried over the center field fence.

It was the first time the Cubs had an inside-the-park home run and a traditional homer in the same inning since 2001 when Sammy Sosa and Fred McGriff turned the trick.

Crow-Armstrong is one of the fastest players in baseball and has shown it by going 23-for-24 in stolen base attempts this season in just 89 games.

The young outfielder has had some struggles adjusting to big-league pitching this season but he has been much better of late. Crow-Armstrong entered Friday’s action with a .268 average and .805 OPS in August.

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