DODGERS Andy Pages Nails Award
Outfielder Andy Pages of the Los Angeles Dodgers and third baseman Eugenio Suárez of the Arizona Diamondbacks have been selected the National League Co-Players of the Week presented by Chevrolet, and designated hitter/infielder Jorge Polanco of the Seattle Mariners has been named the American League Player of the Week presented by Chevrolet. The announcements were made by MLB Network.
By Earl Heath | Contributing Sports Writer
Outfielder Andy Pages of the Los Angeles Dodgers and third baseman Eugenio Suárez of the Arizona Diamondbacks have been selected the National League Co-Players of the Week presented by Chevrolet, and designated hitter/infielder Jorge Polanco of the Seattle Mariners has been named the American League Player of the Week presented by Chevrolet. The announcements were made by MLB Network.
Pages won his first career weekly honor, marking the first award by a Dodger since Shohei Ohtani won in back-to-back weeks to cap off his historic 2024 NL MVP season. Suárez earned his second career honor after also winning the Diamondbacks’ most recent award on March 31st to begin the 2025 season. Polanco also earned his first career honor, and along with his teammate Dylan Moore’s win last week, it marks the fifth time in history that Mariners have won the award in back-to-back weeks, joining: Mike Moore and Mark Langston on September 18/25, 1988; Jay Buhner and Randy Johnson on September 17/24, 1995; Alex Rodriguez on August 25/September 1, 1996; and Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr. on June 28/July 5, 1998
The 24-year-old hit .650 (13-for-20) with three homers, six RBI, three doubles, five runs scored, a stolen base, a .650 on-base percentage, and a 1.250 slugging percentage in five games. The Cuba native led the Majors in batting average, on-base percentage, OPS (1.900), and total bases (25); tied for the Major League lead in hits; ranked second in slugging; tied for second in extra-base hits (6); and tied for fourth in homers. The 2024 World Series Champion hit safely in all five of his games, with three hits on Friday and Saturday against Pittsburgh and four hits in the series finale on Sunday. The four-hit contest marked the second of his career after he tallied four hits on May 3rd last year against Atlanta. He is the first Dodger age 24 or younger with at least three straight games of three or more hits since Matt Kemp in July 2009.
During the three-game stretch, Pages tallied a hit in 10 of his 12 at-bats, getting hits in six consecutive at-bats from the seventh inning on Saturday through the sixth inning on Sunday. He opened the streak with a pair of doubles off of Paul Skenes and is now a perfect 4-for-4 against the flamethrower to begin their careers.
The outfielder slugged home runs in each of his first two games to begin the week against the Cubs, marking the third time he has homered in back-to-back games and the second time this season after also doing so on April 8th.
