Crow-Armstrong Walks It Off in 10th, Cubs Steal 4-3 Win

Pete Crow-Armstrong doubled to right in the 10th inning to score Shaw and give the Cubs a 4-3 win over the Mets on June 25. The play swung the Mets' win probability from 58% all the way down to 29% — a 30-point gut punch that ended New York's comeback bid.

The Cubs did their damage early and in a hurry. In the sixth inning, Conforto singled to right to score Swanson, then Bregman doubled to right — Conforto scoring on a fielding error by Mets right fielder Benge, with Bregman alertly reaching third on the same miscue. Happ followed with a single to right to score Bregman, and just like that Chicago had a 3-0 lead. Three hits, three runs, and a gift from the outfield. Matthew Boyd had already exited by then, finishing with 4.2 innings, 4 hits, 0 earned runs, and 4 walks — functional but hardly dominant. The Cubs' rotation has been battered by injuries this week, with Ben Brown and Edward Cabrera both landing on the 15-day IL, and the club trading for David Peterson from these very Mets out of sheer necessity. None of that showed in the score through six.

The Mets, to their credit, refused to fold. Wagaman launched a 383-foot homer to left in the sixth to score Ewing and cut it to 3-2. Then in the seventh, Young — working with just one at-bat on the night — crushed a 388-foot shot to right center to tie it at 3. Freddy Peralta had been sharp in his 5.2 innings (5 hits, 0 earned runs, 5 strikeouts), and the Mets' bullpen kept the Cubs off the board through the eighth and ninth. Luke Weaver threw a perfect inning with 3 strikeouts, and Austin Warren worked 1.1 innings without allowing a hit. New York had all the momentum — or at least that's how it appeared heading into extras.

Then Crow-Armstrong happened. With the Mets holding a 58% win probability in the 10th, he lined a double to right to score Shaw, flipping that number to 29% and ending the night. Crow-Armstrong finished 2-for-5 with the decisive RBI — the kind of performance that looks like exactly what a Cubs lineup needed after burning through so much energy earlier in the series. Dansby Swanson, who entered Thursday with 15 RBI in the series per ESPN, didn't even need to be the hero this time. For the Mets, this one stings: two home runs, a bullpen that gave up nothing, and still a loss. That appears to be the story of their 2026 in miniature.