photo: Paul Goldschmidt (Billy Hurst/Imagn)
Major League Baseball press release (extracted)
First baseman Paul Goldschmidt of the St. Louis Cardinals has been named the W.B. Mason National League Player of the Week (for the period of July 22-28). (Minnesota’s Nelson Cruz is the American League honoree.) The announcements were made earlier today on MLB Network.
Goldschmidt claimed his third career NL Player of the Week Award, most recently doing so last year for the period ending June 19th. Paul is the first Cardinals player this season to accomplish the feat and the first since his teammate Matt Carpenter in 2018 (August 6th).
Goldschmidt highlights:
- Across seven games played, batted .345 (10-for-29) with nine runs scored, six home runs, 13 RBI, two walks and a .966 slugging percentage.
- Posted a career-best six-game home run streak from July 22nd-27th, matching the franchise record shared by Carpenter and Mark McGwire. The streak was tied for the second-longest by a right-handed hitter in MLB history, trailing only Kevin Mench, who logged a seven-game streak from April 21-28, 2006.
- During his historic streak, homered in each game of St. Louis’ four-game series against the Pirates. Became the first Cardinals player to homer in every game of a four-game set since Ripper Collins in 1935.
- Enters play today with 10 round-trippers thus far in July, which trails only Eugenio Suárez of the Cincinnati Reds for the NL lead. Overall, Goldschmidt is slashing .289/.348/.687 with 19 runs scored, 13 extra-base hits and 26 RBI since the calendar flipped to July.