Good morning, Chicago.

Pete Crow-Armstrong doesn’t really know how he was able to drive a 90 mph slider well below the zone to the opposite field for a two-run, game-tying home run in the bottom of the ninth inning at Wrigley Field.

His Cubs manager, Craig Counsell, can’t describe how he did it, either.

“I told (bench coach Ryan Flaherty) before the at-bat, ‘You just don’t know what’s going to happen when Pete comes up,’” Counsell said after the Cubs’ 7-6, 10-inning win over the Reds. “It’s not supposed to happen, but then it happens. That’s kind of Pete. I can’t explain a lot of his at-bats, personally.”

But that kind of sums up these Cubs lately. They’re pulling off feats that seemingly defy odds.

The improbable win was their third straight walk-off triumph, and it’s their 14th consecutive victory at Wrigley Field.

“You feel like you’ve seen a lot of baseball games in your life, and then you see stuff that you just don’t expect to see, but that’s why we love it, right?” Counsell said. “It wasn’t your normal game, but both sides are battling, trying to come out with the ‘W’, and we came out on top.”

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