Following a week in which he led the National League in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS and home runs, Luis García Jr. was named National League Player of the Week on Monday. The announcement was made on MLB Network. This is García Jr.’s first career Player of the Week award and the third MLB award won by a Nationals player this season after James Wood won Player of the Week the week of April 7 and Nasim Nuñez won Play of the Week on March 30.
García Jr., 26, went 10-for-19 (.526) with two doubles, six home runs, nine RBI, three walks and eight runs scored in six games from June 22-28.
With six home runs in his last six games, García Jr. became just the fourth Major Leaguer since the beginning of the 2022 season to hit six homers in a six-game span, joining Kyle Schwarber (May 9-15, 2026), Eugenio Suárez (July 12-21, 2025) and Aaron Judge (Aug. 20-25, 2024). Highlights of García Jr.’s week include:
- Homered in three straight games for the first time in his career from June 22-24.
- Matched a season-high with a four-hit game, including a home run, at Baltimore on June 27.
- Recorded his sixth career multi-home run game with a two-homer, five-RBI, three-hit day to help the Nationals win the series in Baltimore on June 28.
García Jr. leads Major League Baseball with 13 home runs and 33 RBI since May 22. In those 32 games, he is hitting .306 with five doubles, a triple, 13 home runs, 33 RBI, five walks and 20 runs scored.