Mookie Betts earns NL's first 2024 Player of the Month honor
03/05/2024 17:45
by Hayley Tennant
Mookie Betts kept mashing throughout March and April,and now he comes out of it as the National League Player of the Month.
Betts had a .368/.477/.624/1.101 slash line with six home runs, 18 extra-base hits, 23 RBI and 26 walks in 32 games for the period of March/April.
This is the third career Player of the Month award for Betts and second as a Dodger after winning the award last August with a .455/.516/.839/1.355 slash line with 11 homers and 30 RBI.
The Tennessee native has had eight multi-hit games in April, including April 16 against Washington, where he went a perfect 5-for-5 with two runs, two doubles and two RBI.
The Tennessee native has had 11 multi-hit games in March/April, including April 16 against Washington, where he went a perfect 5-for-5 with two runs, two doubles and two RBI.
He had two other four-hit games, including March 21 in Seoul South, Korea, where he hit a home run‚ the first by a Major Leaguer in the country in an MLB game, and drove in six runs.
On April 2, he hit his 1,500th career hit, a home run against the Giants.
Betts currently leads the Major Leagues in batting average (.377), on-base percentage (.481), OPS (1.104), hits (49), walks (26), runs (29), total bases (81), bWAR (3.1) and fWAR (2.8). He is second in slugging percentage (.623) and extra-base hits (18).
He also, in his first season at the position, has five defensive runs saved at shortstop.
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