CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong put his name in the Chicago Cubs’ record book next to Hall of Fame slugger Hack Wilson — and then nearly ruined the celebration at Wrigley Field.Crow-Armstrong completed the first cycle by a major leaguer this season with a seventh-inning single Monday night, then was promptly picked off first base by Colorado Rockies reliever Brennan Bernardino in a one-run game.“My excitement was a little short-lived,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell quipped after his team scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth for a 5-4 win.Crow-Armstrong, who was a single short of the cycle Saturday in San Francisco, hit a leadoff home run in the first inning, tripled off the wall on almost the same trajectory in the third and doubled down the right-field line in the fifth.When he came up again to lead off the seventh, the 24-year-old said he was more prepared for the moment than he might have been earlier in his career, or even earlier this season. “Earlier, it probably made me a little nervous,” Crow-Armstrong said. “I felt like I ‘had to’ instead of ‘I get to’ hit in this really cool moment with this crowd of 40,000 pulling for me. I think I’m learning to use that to my advantage instead of me shaking in my boots when I’m up there and wanting to get the job done so badly. It’s also a regular thing at Wrigley. That happens a lot.”With both Crow-Arms …
