After Yovani Gallardo and the Seattle Mariners took the prize in weeks one and two, who will be the third recipient of the performance of the week award?<\/p>\n
Contenders<\/strong><\/p>\n Jered Weaver gets a mention once again for his performance against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.\u00c2\u00a0 Weaver pitched the complete game, giving up just one earned run while striking out eight to send his season record to 5-0 with a 1.23 ERA. He wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only pitcher in the AL West turning in impressive performances over the week either, most notably with the A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Brett Anderson shutting out the Red Sox over eight innings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n As for the hitters, the D-Backs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ryan Roberts had a big night on Tuesday in Cincinnati, striking two\u00c2\u00a0longballs and driving in three runs as Arizona beat the Reds 5-4.\u00c2\u00a0 And if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stretching the performance tag to cover a period of games, few deserve consideration more than the Red Sox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jed Lowrie. Prior to Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games, Lowrie had gone 18-for-39 to start the season, with three home runs and 11 RBIs, all amounting\u00c2\u00a0to a .462\/.488\/.744 batting line.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n My pick<\/strong><\/p>\n But this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winner is the Florida Marlins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ace Josh Johnson<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 He completely dominated the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday, mixing his mid 90s fastball and an occasional change-up with a devastating curveball that he has shown such excellent command with so far this season.\u00c2\u00a0 He struck out nine Buccos batters, seven being punched out on that breaking pitch.<\/p>\n You know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dealing with a dominant pitcher when he looks like throwing a no-hitter most times out and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what the Marlins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 have had from Johnson.\u00c2\u00a0 He took a no-no into the fifth inning on this occasion and batted in two runs to support his own pitching effort for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Yovani Gallardo and the Seattle Mariners took the prize in weeks one and two, who will be the third recipient of the performance of the week award?<\/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],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2","tag-performance-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","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=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10662,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}