Pete Crow-Armstrong received the ball from his 30th home run Friday from a bleacher fan who told him he hadn’t been to a game in about 30 years.

Thirty proved to be the magic number Friday in the Chicago Cubs’ 12-1 drubbing of the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field.

Crow-Armstrong became the first Cubs player with 30 doubles, 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season and joined Sammy Sosa as the only members of the team’s 30-30 club. Seiya Suzuki later added his 30th home run, joining Hidekia Matsui and Shohei Ohtani as the only Japanese players to reach the milestone. They also are the only three players from Japan to drive in 100 runs, a mark Suzuki passed with his seventh-inning grand slam, reaching 101 RBIs.

Suzuki, Crow-Armstrong and Michael Busch, who hit his 32nd ho

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