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As an A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fan, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tempted to give this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s award to the Giants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Madison Bumgarner.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\nAs an A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fan, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tempted to give this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s award to the Giants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Madison Bumgarner.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
His \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcperformance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on Tuesday night was a horror show for San Fran, naturally making it a highlight for us in the green and gold.\u00c2\u00a0 Bumgarner was chased by the Twins having recorded just one out on Tuesday while conceding eight runs.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baseball has a habit of biting you on the behind even before tempting fate by laughing at a rival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s misfortune, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll settle for a slight chuckle and to send the award to someone who truly deserves it.<\/p>\n
There are several candidates.<\/p>\n
The Reds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Chris Heisey had the hitting performance of the week as he went deep three times against the Yankees on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As for pitchers, James Shields struck out ten Marlins and gave up just one unearned run on Sunday, while Zack Greinke also added more K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to his name (in more ways than one) with ten against the Rays on Tuesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Clayton Kershaw had set the K trend the day before Greinke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start by striking out eleven Detroit Tigers as he pitched a complete game shutout.<\/p>\n
The winner\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Kershaw\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance would normally have been enough to take the honours, but he just got pipped by another starting pitcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outing on the same night.<\/p>\n The Braves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tim Hudson struck out eight Toronto Blue Jays over eight scoreless innings.\u00c2\u00a0 That was impressive enough; however what pushed him past the other contenders was that he backed his own pitching effort with a two-run homer: the only runs scored in the game.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Pitching wins often don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count for a lot, but in Hudson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case he undoubtedly earned his W on this occasion and the Performance of the week award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another pitcher earns a 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-11187","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\/11187","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=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}