Dodgers rookie sensation Cody Bellinger grabbed his second National League Player of the Week honor in as many months Monday, earning the award after another torrid seven-day stretch.
The 21-year-old clocked five home runs last week to give him an NL-leading 24 homers in just 57 games. Bellinger hit two home runs last Monday against the Mets, another the next night, and then two on Sunday in the Dodgers' 12-6 comeback win over Colorado. The rookie drove in 12 runs last week as he continued to captivate the baseball world.
"I'm going to come in tomorrow like this didn't happen," Bellinger said on Sunday. "Manny Mota comes in every day to remind me I already got paid for yesterday."
Bellinger recorded his sixth multi-homer game on Sunday, making him the fastest player to notch so many. It took Mark McGwire 97 games in 1987, when he hit a rookie-record 49 homers, to reach six-multi homer games.
The Dodgers saw Bellinger as a short-term solution when they promoted him in late April, but the rookie swung his way into the lineup, and earned a NL Player of the Week Award, with a sensational first two weeks. Two months after his promotion, he leads the Senior Circuit in not just home runs, but slugging percentage (.679).