J-Rod, Eddie Rosario earn Player of the Week honors
Last week, Mariners outfielder Julio Rodríguez had every week for the ages whereas the Braves’ Eddie Rosario had the most effective weeks of his profession, highlighted by a clutch go-ahead dwelling run on Saturday. Those performances helped them earn Players of the Week offered by Chevrolet within the American and National League, respectively.
Meanwhile, the Angels garnered Play of the Week honors due to their miraculous 6-4-3-2 triple play in opposition to the Rays on Friday night time.
Rodríguez put collectively the most effective weeks in current reminiscence by going 21-for-37 (.568) throughout seven video games. Seventeen of these hits got here throughout the Mariners’ video games on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which broke the AL/NL file for many hits in a four-game span, surpassing the earlier file of 16 hits by Milt Stock of the Brooklyn Robins in 1925.
Along with tallying the 21 hits (which included two dwelling runs and 4 doubles), Rodríguez additionally stole six bases and scored seven runs. He completed the week with an OPS of 1.417, and missed tying the AL/NL file of 19 hits in a five-game span by one. His 18 hits over a five-game span are tied for second since at the least 1901. This is Rodríguez’s third profession Player of the Week win, and his second this 12 months.
On the opposite aspect of the nation, Rosario had every week that was paying homage to his electrical efficiency within the 2021 NL Championship Series by going 11-for-21 (.524) with three dwelling runs and 10 RBIs.
Rosario’s signature second in that span got here on Saturday when the 31-year-old went 4-for-4 in opposition to San Francisco with a go-ahead, two-out, two-run dwelling run within the eighth inning off Giants submariner Tyler Rogers. He additionally walked thrice and scored six runs throughout every week during which he raised his batting common 16 factors to .260. This is Rosario’s second profession Player of the Week honor; he final gained in 2017.
The Angels pulled off what could be the play of the 12 months on Friday once they stored the Rays from scoring the go-ahead run within the ninth inning with the aforementioned 6-4-3-2 triple play. With runners on first and third and nobody out in a 6-6 sport, Angels nearer Carlos Estévez induced a floor ball to shortstop Luis Rengifo, who flipped to Brandon Drury at second base for the power. Drury then fired the ball to debuting rookie Nolan Schanuel at first base for the second out, who then threw dwelling to catcher Logan O’Hoppe, nabbing Yandy Díaz and finishing the seventh triple play in Angels historical past.
