by Cary Osborne
Capping his week with a 4-for-4 game and hitting .500 for the week, Freddie Freeman is the National League Player of the Week.
It is Freeman’s 10th NL Player of the Week honor. His 10 awards are tied with Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn for fifth-most all-time, trailing Barry Bonds (15); Albert Pujols (13); Hall of Famer Mike Piazza (12); and Sammy Sosa (11). He is the 24th player in MLB history to win at least 10 weekly awards.
Freeman went 14-for-28 (.500/.500/1.000/1.500) with three home runs, three doubles, 12 RBI, 28 total bases and seven runs scored in his seven games from May 5-May 11.
He is batting .376/.437/.734/1.170 this season.
Freeman is two plate appearances short of qualifying for league-leader statistics. He would be leading the National League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS if his current 126 plate appearances were enough to qualify.
Freeman reached the 350 career home run milestone on May 5.
This is the Dodgers’ second NL Player of the Week award this season as Andy Pages won on April 28th.
Freddie Freeman wins NL Player of the Week for the 10th time was originally published in Dodger Insider on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.