Pete Crow-Armstrong has worst day ever at Dodger Stadium after trash talking LA fans

Pete Crow-Armstrong simply cannot get out of his personal method.

Over the offseason, the Chicago Cubs outfielder inexplicably made some derogatory feedback about fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Made much more inexplicable by his personal background.

In an interview with Chicago Magazine Earlier in 2026, he mentioned, “I love Chicago more and more. It’s just an incredible city. The people are great. They give as***. They aren’t just baseball fans who go to the game like Dodgers fans to take pictures and whatever. They are paying attention. “They care.”

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Here’s the thing about that. It is, of course, wrong. The Dodgers have led the league in attendance every single season for the past decade. But PCA wasn’t done there.

“What I want individuals may see by means of is, I’m not getting at die-hard Dodger fans,” he said. “They clearly exist, they’re on the market. I grew up seeing these individuals, too, however it’s a see-me metropolis, man. It’s a Lakers metropolis the place individuals present as much as sit courtside and look good. And I see it the identical method right here.”

Here’s the thing about this: PCA is telling on himself. For those who don’t know, he grew up the son of two successful actors. Then he attended Harvard-Westlake, an elite private school in Studio City where tuition currently runs nearly $55,000 per year, for seventh grade and up. The reason he thinks LA is a “courtside,” “see-me” city is because that’s who he is, and who he knows. He’s a rich kid who only ever knew other rich kids.

Well, that rich kid who trashed Dodgers fans had just about the worst day imaginable at Dodger Stadium on Saturday afternoon. And the fans, when they could tear themselves away from taking photos, loved it.

Pete Crow-Armstrong Gets Humiliated, Humiliates Himself

While the Cubs took the first game of the three-game series, the second quickly spiraled for Chicago — and PCA was right in the middle of it. He struck out leading off the top of the third inning. Then struck out again leading off the top of the fifth inning.

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The bottom of the fifth inning though, was the play of the game.

Alex Freeland drilled a high, deep fly ball to center field that sent PCA back to the warning track where he…well, made just about one of the worst reads or defensive plays you’ll ever see.

Makes you wonder if he was too distracted by all the photos being taken in the stands to pick up the ball.

With the Cubs now trailing 8-4, and the game on the line, Crow-Armstrong came up in the top of the sixth with one out and the bases loaded, meaning he represented the tying run. And then he promptly struck out for the third time, swinging over a slider from reliever Jack Dreyer.

He had one more at-bat though, a chance to redeem himself after a tough game. And at the top of the eighth inning, with a runner in scoring position, he struck out swinging on three straight pitches. That’s 0-4 with four strikeouts, nine swings and misses, and an awful defensive misplay. It’s hard to do much worse than that.

Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong cannot reach a ball hit for a double by Los Angeles Dodgers’ Alex Freeland during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles on April 25, 2026. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)

PCA was given a chance to clarify his comments during the series, and then promptly told the Los Angeles Times that he likes enjoying in entrance of his house fans higher than highway fans.

“Each fan base has their very own character,” he said. “And I used to be actually simply evaluating my very own two experiences: enjoying for the Cubs, and folks exhibiting up and having fun with it, and there is simply an air in regards to the place; after which right here, it’s what it’s like, perhaps if I performed right here, it would be totally different. But I do not.”

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Gee, what a brilliant observation. He gets treated better by Cubs fans than Dodgers fans because he plays for the Cubs. You have to be the first player to ever notice this, right?

And again, his observations are, to put it mildly, factually inaccurate. Here’s a photo from the Wrigley Field bleachers posted to Instagram just a few days ago.

Here’s another one, posted three days ago during the middle of an inning with players on the field.

This isn’t to pick on Cubs fans, though of course, Wrigley Field is far more of a tourist attraction for generic baseball fans who aren’t interested in the game at hand than Dodger Stadium. It’s to highlight that taking photos and looking at smartphones at sporting events has become part of the modern gameday experience. And acting as though one fan base is worse in this regard than any other is absurd.

St. Louis Cardinals fans, for decades, were routinely described as the “finest in baseball.” Now that the team is in a rebuilding phase, they’re in the bottom half of the league in attendance behind franchises with little-praised fan bases like the Arizona Diamondbacks. The San Diego Padres, never praised as an elite fan base, now sold out the vast majority of their games. Fans are fans. They like winning and don’t want to pay money to support losing.

Though maybe Pete Crow-Armstrong was too concerned about being “seen” with star patterns dyed into his hair to realize it.