The PCA blasted a slam cannon and contributed six points in a single game, and the Cubs reversed the Reds to win a big away victory

Pete Crow-Armstrong's slam cannon grazed the right field foul to cap off a six-point offensive run in the seventh inning, helping the Chicago Cubs overcome a two-and-four-point deficit to defeat the Cincinnati Reds 13-6 away on Friday night. The rookie paused to stare after hitting the ball and watched as the key shot was ultimately determined to be valid, leaving Reds bullpen pitcher Tony Santillan as a backdrop after the Reds missed a chance to end the offense after back-to-back errors.

It was Crowe-Armstrong's second home run of the night (leading the team with his 14th of the season) and the second time this month that he contributed six dozen points in a single game. In the 13-3 White Sox game at Wrigley Field a week ago, he was the trailblazer who also scored six dozen points. As the fourth baseman, he became the first Cubs player to achieve this feat twice in a single month since the MLB official statistics in 1920.

Seiya Suzuki made up a three-point shot (13th of the season) against Brent Suter in eight innings to completely open the score. Crowe Armstrong and Suzuki both ended with a three-hit, and the Cubs scored 11 points in the final three games to seal the win.

On the pitcher side, Chris Flexen replaced Julian Merryweather when two of them went out on first and third base in five innings, and took advantage of the Reds' double-steal tactical error to defuse the crisis, and then scored three up and three down in the next six innings to win (2-0). The two starting pitchers — Matthew Boyd and Hunter Greene, who returned from injury — didn't make it to the full five innings.

The Reds took a 4-0 lead in the first three games and still held a 6-2 advantage seven games before the eventual reversal. A large number of Cubs fans poured into the stadium of Great America, pushing the visiting team's offensive to a climax with deafening cheers.