Seattle Mariners veteran Jorge Polanco was named American League Participant of the Week for the week of April 26, and he made somewhat historical past within the course of.
By incomes Participant of the Week honors, he and teammate Dylan Moore turned the primary Mariners to win the award in consecutive weeks since Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr. did it in 1998.
Getting into play on Monday, Polanco has successful in 9 of this final 10 video games. He hit .471 with 4 residence runs over the previous week, led by a two-home-run day on Saturday in a 14-0 win over the Miami Marlins. Polanco carried that momentum into Sunday, the place he went 3-4 with two doubles.
And Polanco has been scorching all season. In 20 video games, he is slashing .377/.405/.739 with seven residence runs and a 238 OPS+.
“I used to be telling him that he’s not scorching, he’s the hearth,” centerfielder Julio Rodriguez stated, per the Seattle Occasions. “It’s a lot enjoyable to observe. Each time he’s on the plate, everyone’s watching. All people’s like anticipating one thing to occur, as a result of he’s simply that type of participant.”
Jorge Polanco and Dylan Moore energy resurgent Mariners offense
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Polanco’s honor comes one week after Moore’s explosive week for Seattle. Moore did not precisely decelerate this week, both. He is homered twice since then, bringing his season complete to 6 with a 169 OPS+.
The Mariners had probably the greatest pitching staffs in baseball final yr however missed the playoffs because of an anemic offense. Total, the Seattle batting order is not precisely breaking information, however due to Polanco, Moore and Cal Raleigh (10 residence runs), the Mariners have not less than been respectable.
Seattle ranks fifth in MLB with a group OPS of .748 and third with 42 group residence runs. They’re nonetheless hitting simply .237 as a group, but it surely’s with far fewer useless spots within the order.
Now a recreation forward of the Texas Rangers for first place within the American League West, supervisor Dan Wilson summed up his group’s strategy in a single phrase.
“Resiliency,” he stated, per MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer. “That is the phrase that retains arising.”