{"id":877,"date":"2015-06-02T19:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2015-06-02T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:08:12","slug":"pair-of-nats-win-may-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Nats Win May Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/474437842?et=id9D8KfeT-ZTR1wI2T28Iw&#038;viewMoreLink=off&#038;sig=-ELckiNlobRYTRHCpjYWyBiMCLIL4maIxJRMwtjs0rE=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"445\" height=\"297\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe season&#8217;s second month saw the Jackalope open a small lead over several close pursuers into a gigantic lead which could take an extended run of good fortune for other teams to close.\u00a0 When the calendar turned to June yesterday, the Jackalope lead was 18 points over the Darkhorses.\u00a0 Incredibly, no other team was within 28 points of first place.\u00a0 Obviously, there is more than enough time for other teams to get back into the race.\u00a0 But for now, the Jackalope are sitting pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Since I still haven&#8217;t gotten around to putting together the new awards pages where all of the weekly and monthly winners will be listed, here are the players who have been named the batters and pitchers of the week since last month&#8217;s update:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batters of the Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 4 (4\/27 &#8211; 5\/3) &#8211; Josh Reddick, Naturals<br \/>\nWeek 5 (5\/4 &#8211; 5\/10) &#8211; Bryce Harper, Darkhorses<br \/>\nWeek 6 (5\/11 &#8211; 5\/17) &#8211; Bryce Harper, Darkhorses<br \/>\nWeek 7 (5\/18 &#8211; 5\/24) &#8211; A.J. Pollock, Kings<br \/>\nWeek 8 (5\/25 &#8211; 5\/31) &#8211; Josh Donaldson, Jackalope<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pitchers of the Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 4 (4\/27 &#8211;\u00a05\/3) &#8211; Sonny Gray, Jackalope<br \/>\nWeek 5 (5\/4\u00a0&#8211;\u00a05\/10) &#8211; Michael Pineda, Darkhorses<br \/>\nWeek 6 (5\/11 &#8211;\u00a05\/17) &#8211; Max Scherzer, Kings<br \/>\nWeek 7 (5\/18 &#8211; 5\/24) &#8211; Cole Hamels, Demigods<br \/>\nWeek 8 (5\/25 &#8211; 5\/31) &#8211; Carlos Martinez, Mavericks<\/p>\n<p>Unlike last month, the award winners from May do appear on the lists above. \u00a0Here are the best of May 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Batter of the Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper, Darkhorses<br \/>\n.360 AVG, 13\u00a0HR, 28 RBI, 24\u00a0R, 2\u00a0SB, 2.87\u00a0PAR<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pitcher of the Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer, Kings<br \/>\n1.67 ERA, 0.907 WHIP, 5 W, 0 SV, 56 K, 4.07\u00a0PAR<\/p>\n<p>Besides the Jackalope, there were two other unstoppable forces in the month of May, and both play for the Washington Nationals.\u00a0 Darkhorses outfielder Bryce Harper had the best month of his young career on the way to winning Player of the Month.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Kings ace Max Scherzer seems to be adjusting well in his return to the National League.\u00a0 He is the Pitcher of the Month.\u00a0 Neither of these awards were very closely contested.\u00a0 Harper and Scherzer were almost indisputably the best two players in baseball in May and are certainly among the favorites for the MVP and Cy Young awards too.<\/p>\n<p>Only two players in DTBL history have met or exceeded Harper&#8217;s five monthly stat totals from above: \u00a0Barry Bonds in May of 2001 and Jeff Bagwell in June of 1994. \u00a0That&#8217;s some pretty exclusive company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season&#8217;s second month saw the Jackalope open a small lead over several close pursuers into a gigantic lead which could take an extended run of good fortune for other teams to close.\u00a0 When the calendar turned to June yesterday, the Jackalope lead was 18 points over the Darkhorses.\u00a0 Incredibly, no other team was within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-darkhorses","category-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}