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Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong breaks out of 'slow start' in big way

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LOS ANGELES – It can be difficult this early in the season to separate trends from small sample size flukes.

Going into the Cubs’ 4-2 win against the Dodgers on Sunday, center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong had narrowed his focus to one category: was he swinging at good pitches?

“I don’t care about the percentages or anything like that,” he said when presented with the fact that his contact rate on pitches in the strike zone was about 83%, despite his .