Ohtani, Alonso named Players of the Week

Last week, Angels famous person Shohei Ohtani made (extra) historical past whereas Mets slugger Pete Alonso put his superior energy on full show. That’s why on Monday they had been named the Players of the Week introduced by Chevrolet within the American and National League, respectively.

Meanwhile, Cubs outfielder Mike Tauchman garnered Play of the Week honors for his game-sealing dwelling run theft vs. the Cardinals.

Ohtani all however locked up his award on Thursday, when he had one of many most wonderful performances we have now ever witnessed in a doubleheader towards Detroit. He pitched a one-hit shutout in Game 1, then got here again a short while later to blast two dwelling runs in Game 2. The tireless two-way phenom crushed his Major League-leading thirty ninth dwelling run a day later in Toronto.

Ohtani produced an .800 slugging share over six video games final week and he reached base in 11 of his remaining 17 plate appearances. This is his third Player of the Week honor this yr and the seventh of his profession.

But no participant bopped extra homers final week than Alonso, who went deep twice in Tuesday’s victory over the Yankees and did so once more in Friday’s win towards the Nationals. He has three multihomer video games this season and 17 since he debuted in 2019. Only the Yankees’ Aaron Judge (24) has extra such video games throughout that span.

Alonso additionally drove in a season-high 5 runs in every of these video games. It all added as much as a .304/.370/.826 slash line with an MLB-best 12 RBIs over his six-game week. A 3-time Player of the Week winner, Alonso is the primary Met to obtain this award in 2023.

Tauchman offered arguably probably the most thrilling second of the Cubs’ latest eight-game successful streak when he reached over the center-field fence to rob the Cardinals’ Alec Burleson of what would have been a game-winning homer with two outs within the backside of the ninth inning.

“It’s kind of like you have that internal clock or feeling of, ‘I’ve kind of got to go up now,’” Tauchman stated of his thought course of on the play. “And it kind of just coincided with the ball coming down. I didn’t know, I guess, that I was right at the wall until I kind of turned to catch the ball.”