Plenty of individuals stated a strong case for the Performance of the Week award this week.<\/p>\n
Contenders<\/strong><\/p>\n There were some great pitching performances last Sunday, from Josh Beckett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eight shut-out innings against the Yankees, Cole Hamels’ seven shut-out innings against the Braves (live on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra), Gavin Floyd\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strong eight innings against the Rays and Jered Weaver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 15K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s against the Blue Jays.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Dan Haren followed up Weaver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start with a complete game shut-out against the previously red-hot Cleveland Indians on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Haren gave up just one hit in that game and the Marlins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Josh Johnson had a no-hitter going into the eighth inning against the Braves on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The pitchers didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it all their own way.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam Fuld had a big day for the Rays on Monday, going 4-for-6 as Tampa Bay thumped the Red Sox 16-5.\u00c2\u00a0 Lance Berkman dominated the D-Backs, going deep four times and driving in ten runs in the Cardinals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 three-game series in the desert.\u00c2\u00a0 Troy Tulowtizki had a similar effect for the Rockies against the Mets, hitting\u00c2\u00a0a longball in each of the four games of the series and going 10-for-16.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n My pick<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite those personal feats, the performance of the week has to go to the Seattle Mariners team that beat the Blue Jays on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n You couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a more desperate situation than the one the\u00c2\u00a0M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s found themselves in at the seventh inning stretch.\u00c2\u00a0 They had lost seven games in a row and it was almost certain to extend to eight.\u00c2\u00a0 The M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trailed 7-0 and those seven runs all come off the reigning Cy Young winner Felix Hernandez.<\/p>\n If even King Felix was falling apart, what hope did the M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have?<\/p>\n Well, sometimes when all hope seems gone, something miraculous happens.\u00c2\u00a0 That was undoubtedly the case at Safeco Field.\u00c2\u00a0 The M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scored once in the seventh, five times in the eighth and then Luis Rodriguez drove home two runs with a walk-off game-winning single.\u00c2\u00a0 The reaction of the Mariners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 TV announcers said it all: they just started laughing in disbelief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plenty of individuals stated a strong case for the Performance of the Week award this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553,414,127],"class_list":["post-10610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2","tag-performance-of-the-week","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10620,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}