It mattered little to her — we’ll call her The Woman in White — that from where she and her friends were sitting in The Patio, the grass-level section beyond right-center field at Rate Field, she nearly had witnessed another catch for the ages by Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong.
For TWIW, this was not a moment made to celebrate greatness, but to taunt it. It was the whole reason she had planned to hold her engagement party in this spot, a young woman from Northwest Indiana who now lives in the city. She is a White Sox fan.
“Our goal the entire time we planned this,’’ she said, “was we knew PCA was in center field and we’re like, we’re going to heckle him at some point.’’
Her fiancé is a Cubs fan. He was the guy wearing the blue Cubs jersey. Evidently, he didn’t have a say in the planning.
Welcome to Ground Zero, literally, of the crosstown rivalry, 2026.
Crow-Armstrong once again had defied space and gravity and logic and leaped as high as he could against the center-field wall Sunday, in an attempt to take extra bases away from Sox slugger Miguel Vargas in the fifth inning.
“If Pete can’t catch that ball,’’ teammate Michael Conforto would say afterward, “there isn’t a center fielder alive who could.’’
The people who measure these things say there was zero chance of Crow-Armstrong making the catch. Crow-Armstrong has defied those odds before. Not this time.
“I missed the ball,’’ he said. “I don’t know, I have to watch the replays, but I missed the ball.’’
"Some lady decided to start talking shit and I felt the need to say it back." -Pete Crow-Armstrong
(via @JesseRogersESPN)This story originally appeared in Chicago Sun-Times.
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