CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong made them pay attention on the suite level of Wrigley Field, where some of the greatest players in franchise history mingled this weekend, watching the Chicago Cubs superstar in awe.Crow-Armstrong’s flair for the dramatic is unquestioned. With more than 30 former Cubs players in attendance on Saturday, including 23 members of the franchise’s 150th anniversary team, Crow-Armstrong launched three home runs against the Cincinnati Reds, turning a 17-5 blowout victory into yet another signature moment in his National League MVP campaign.Crow-Armstrong then hit his 37th and 38th home runs during Sunday’s 7-5 loss. It’s not just the M-V-P chants from the crowd or the highlights that go viral on social media or the PCA graphics that compare his stats to long-ago players enshrined in Cooperstown. During a reunion that also saw Jon Lester and Jody Davis inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame, Crow-Armstrong once again stole the show.“You hear the crack of the bat, and it’s like, ‘Oh s—, he hit another homer,’” said Jake Arrieta, the 2015 NL Cy Young Award winner and a 2016 World Series champion. “For his third at-bat, his fourth at-bat, his fifth at-bat, we were glued to the actual gameplay live. I didn’t want to just watch it on TV. I wanted to see it happen live. We’re all standing there and you’re kind of shaking your head.”Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice on Sunday. (Michael Reaves / Getty Images)On Sunday night, in front of a crowd of 36,308 and a national TV audience, Crow-Armstrong hit another leadoff home run, this time off All-Star Chase Burns, watching the 3-2 fastball soar out toward the right-field bleachers and immediately dropping the bat from his hands.With the Cubs down three runs in the ninth inning, he crushed a two-out solo homer off Reds closer Emilio Pagán that traveled an estimated 431 feet out to right field.On the final day of August, Crow-Armstrong leads Shohei Ohtani in home runs (38-30), RBIs (91-80), runs scored (99-86), stolen bases (32-10) and OPS (.954 vs. .908). The Los Angeles Dodgers also just pushed back Ohtani’s return to the mound due to left knee inflammation, making it nearly two months since he has pitched in a game.Crow-Armstrong, meanwhile, continues to play Gold Glove-caliber defense, covering more than 1,150 innings in center field, a premium position for a playoff contender built around run prevention.Beyond competing with Ohtani, a once-in-a-lifetime player, Crow-Armstrong is in the best-season-ever conversation for a franchise that originated in 1876.There are different methods for accounting for WAR, but with a month remaining, Crow-Armstrong’s 2026 is already near the top of the club’s season-by-season leaderboard.