After nine innings of scoreless baseball, Pete Crow-Armstrong broke through with a 10th-inning home run to send the Chicago Cubs to a 2-0 lead over the rival St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday night.
He celebrated the hit like it was a game winner. The Cardinals had other ideas.
St. Louis countered with three runs in the bottom of the frame featuring a walk-off double by Iván Herrera to spoil Crow-Armstrong’s heroics and send St. Louis to a 3-2 win.
Herrera answers
Herrera took the plate with runners on first and second and the Cubs holding a 2-1 lead. He delivered a line drive off of Trent Thornton to the left-centerfield gap that rolled to the wall and allowed Nathan Church and JJ Wetherholt to score the deciding runs.
THAT’S A WINNER!
Iván Herrera walks it off in extras 😱 pic.twitter.com/n1EoQwXWYS
— MLB (@MLB) July 30, 2026
The walkoff double sent sent Busch Stadium into a frenzy as the Cardinals beat the rival Cubs and picked up a key win to improve to 54-54 and move within 2.5 games of the National League’s final wild-card spot.
That it spoiled Crow-Armstrong’s night surely made it that much sweeter for the home fans.
PCA stunts after go-ahead HR
The Cubs entered extras having posted just a single hit in a game that was locked in a scoreless tie. But with one out and the automatic runner on second, Crow-Armstrong delivered an 0-1 Luis Gastélum offering into the right-field bullpen.
ICE. COLD. 🥶 pic.twitter.com/NQAX5g2CeP
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 30, 2026
Crow-Armstrong knew it immediately. He stunted for a moment at the plate, then waved to the Busch Stadium crowd as he rounded second in what he surely believed was a game-winning home run trot.
Alas, it was not.
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