Red Hot Rockies Rookie Trevor Story Named NL Player Of The Week
DENVER (CBS4) - Colorado Rockies rookie shortstop Trevor Story has been named the National League Player of the Week for the opening week of the season.
Story leads the majors with seven home runs, 12 RBI, 30 total bases and a 1.111 slugging percentage in six games last week while posting a .333 (9-for-27) batting average.
"On Sunday, Story became the first player in Major League history to hit seven home runs in his first six Major League contests, doing so with a solo shot in the eighth inning of Colorado's 6-3 win over San Diego," the Rockies said in a statement. "The 23-year-old became the first player in history (rookie or not) to hit seven home runs in his team's first six games to open a season, and also is the first Major League rookie to homer seven times in any six-game span."
The stats come courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Story also hit two home runs in the Rockies home opener against the Padres on Friday.
He was selected by the Rockies with the 45th overall selection in the 2011 MLB Draft.
Tyler White, first baseman for the Houston Astros, won the American League Player of the Week, making it the first time in MLB history two rookies won the awards to open a season.
Story and White join Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Salome Barojas of the Chicago White Sox as the only rookies to be named Player of the Week for the first week of a season since the award's inception in 1974.
