You can’t keep Pete Crow-Armstrong away from the baseball field. I mean, in a sense, he is a passionate young star who loves the game and keeps getting angry. But I also say that this is a more literal meaning. The Cubs may need to design a system that keeps the Ravens away from the baseball field. He has a problem.
The Cubs walked out of the Rockies Monday night. The score is 3-3. At the bottom of the 11th inning, rookie Matt Shaw left one, took two, and slid Tyler Kinley to the right to score from second base Jon Berti. This is very exciting. (For the bears anyway; for the Rockies, this may be similar to how you feel when your throat is thrilling when you go to bed, you only know that even without obvious certainty, it’s a very bad cold, and you actually do wake up in the painful cold when you wake up late at night.
Well, he was besieged by a teammate anyway. Shaw had an intimate chest bump with Crow-Armstrong after his big hit. I mean “intimacy”, which seems to be a special moment in a sense, but I mean, in a sense, it’s just two people alone on the grass under the romantic Chicago sky, smiling at each other like there’s no one else in the whole world. The rest of the cubs also happened to celebrate.
They will arrive in a second or two, but the PCA gets there first, and he gets there first for a reason: He cheats. This is the exact moment when Berti’s right foot touches the plate.
At this point, I calculated 15 different cubs heading to the zodiac. Crow-Armstrong isn’t even the first in Dugout, but he strides forward and by the time he runs, he’s already in a solid 10-foot 10 feet. It just shows that it is obvious here, which is not allowed. As long as the player feels like this, the player cannot run to the field in an active game. There is a rule. I think. I’m pretty sure there might be a rule.
Let’s go back to this later. For now, let’s go back to April 22. Monday wasn’t the first time Crow-Armstrong was caught, as Greg Huss of the Bear on the Deck noted. In that April game, the Cubs walked out of the Dodgers with Ian Happ singles, and PCA made another mistake. He was fine in that field when Vidal Bruján glided on the plate to win the game, where he hugged Happ like a little kid, eager to let a squirming puppy escape his clutch.
You’ll see Hapt looking at Dugout, trying to see how long he’s been until the mob arrives behind to tear the jersey off his back and crown him with a clumsy bubble bucket. But Crow-Armstrong is far ahead of everyone else, Happ seems to be slanting towards the horizon like a plain traveler, feeling the air pressure changes and is now hunting the sky to show signs of an upcoming thunderstorm. Meanwhile, Crow-Armstrong has his own young man.
Crow-Armstrong didn’t hurt anyone (unless he actually hugged his teammates as tightly as he hugged them). Although he shouldn’t be on the court, he never interfered with the play. He just felt intimate about the kind of enthusiasm we all wanted to see. Despite this, he is an outlier. I’ve been watching each bear’s walks searching for a common thread since the team called Crow-Armstrong Up. What exactly makes him enter the compatibility of the competition in the game still in progress?
On August 1 last year, Crow-Armstrong was also the first player in the field, congratulating Mike Tauchman before the victory run actually crossed the plate. Even though it was Crow-Armstrong’s turn, Tauchman was in trouble for him. He couldn’t wait until the game was actually over to congratulate the player who took the racquet out of his hand!
That was Crow-Armstrong’s only real chance to run to the field. Some other walks were home runs, during which time everyone gathered around the plate to congratulate the batsmen. Some are dramas on the plate, during which time even a bold person like Crow (Crow-Armstrong) knows to stay away. But even in this case, he found a way to express his passion.
Even when he didn’t have the chance to run into the fields early, he still found a way to be the first and embrace the hardest.
When Nico Hoerner left the Rattlesnake on July 21, Crow-Armstrong followed him like a puppy so he could put his clumsy foam bucket on his head. When Seiya Suzuki left the Blue Jays on August 16, Crow-Armstrong was second, taking the jersey out of his frame. I know I put a lot of pictures and GIFs into this article, but trust me when I tell you that I can easily include twice as much. This guy just loves celebrating. I’m not even sure we could turn him out if we wanted. Can fences do tricks? Just build a beautiful tall fence?
No, something tells me that the fence doesn’t work. More like Pete Crow-Legstrong. To answer the questions I asked earlier, I think Crow-Armstrong just wants to celebrate. In short, he arrived on the venue so early because that was the place to hug.
As for another question, remember I said that PCA can’t just run to the field when he wants, because there must be a rule? Well, he definitely shouldn’t have done that. If he does this, another team will object and the referee will agree. But I’m not sure what exactly they can do.
I went through the rulebook twice and I have to tell you that the rules of baseball are weird. For example, Rule 6.03(b) says that as long as another team doesn’t object in time, you can get rid of the irrelevance of hitting the ball. That’s not a loophole. As the comment explains, this is the direct intention of the rule: “The referee shall not direct anyone’s attention to the existence of the batsman’s batsman’s box. The purpose of the rule is to require players and managers of both teams to be constantly alert.” Why should the rule explicitly require vigilance? It’s a game that includes four referees, an official scorer and a pitch clock operator. You don’t have to be both a shortstop and a compliance monitor.
There are many rules that explain what happens to a player, a coach or a spectator interference and defense.
Rule 6.01(b) says that the player should free up any space needed to try to hit the ball. Rule 5.12(b)(7) says that the referee must call time before ordering someone, but 5.12(b)(8) specifies the situation where the referee is allowed to call “time”, while Pete Crow-Armstrong defines in the field like a golden recycler. Rule 5.03(c) says a basic coach who keeps leaving the coach box will be warned and then ejected (and subject to league discipline). Rule 5.08(b) says that if fans catch up with the court and stop them from touching it, runners will get the next base. Rule 6.01(a)(4) says that if members of the offensive team stand around the base where the runners advance or gather together, they are only specifically for confusion, hindering or increasing the difficulties of the field players when it is disturbing.
But what if the player doesn’t want to hinder anyone? He doesn’t want to intervene or be confused. What if he just wanted to be with his friends and was busy with hugs because he was full of love? How do you even write a rulebook like this?
Sadly, this is not one Air bud Condition. There is a very obvious rule that players can’t do what the Crows are doing. But this is not particularly strict. I give you rule 5.10(k): “Unless you actually play or prepare to enter the game, or practice on the first or third base, players and substitutes on both teams will be limited to the team’s bench… Fine: In the referee, the referee may remove the criminal from the field after warning.”
So the worst thing the referee could do with the Crows is to say, “Hey, young cub, I warn you to leave the field,” Crow-Armstrong can continue to hold onto his teammates, leaning against that serious hug, and letting your head rest on your own so they can feel their nus face. Only at this point can the referee say, “Well, this is no longer a warning. You have to leave the field or I’ll kick you out of this game.” But as long as Crow-Armstrong does this in the last game of the game, as long as he doesn’t interfere with anyone, it won’t matter. The game ends when the referee issues a warning. It does mean that Crow-Armstrong can’t linger around the entire bottom of the 10th inning and blow out the party horn, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t even sprint there early on the next time the cubs walk away, reaching out his arm and holding his teammates and holding his teammates like he’ll never let go.
