Josh Bell has been named the W.B. Mason National League Player of the Week for the week of May 13-19.

Bell claimed his first career Player of the Week Award, and is the first Pirates position player to take home the weekly honors since Andrew McCutchen for the period ending October 2, 2017. RHP Jameson Taillon was the lone Bucco to win the award in 2018.

Here are some of the highlights for Bell during the last week:

• Posted a slash line of .407/.484/.889 with six runs scored, 11 hits, a double, four home runs, 10 RBI and four walks over seven games played.

• Among N.L. leaders, finished first in total bases (24); tied for first in hits, home runs and RBI; third in slugging percentage; tied for third in extra-base hits (5); and fourth in on-base percentage.

• Recorded his third career multi-homer game on Saturday night against the San Diego Padres (also: May 4th & May 14th). Became the second switch-hitter in franchise history to post three multi-homer efforts in a single campaign, joining Bobby Bonilla (1990).

• Became the first Pirates player since Brian Giles (August 1999) to register three multi-homer games in a single calendar month. Joined Bob Skinner (1959) as the only players in club history to log three such games before June 1.

• Enters play today with 14 home runs on the season. His 14 homers through Pittsburgh’s first 44 games of the 2019 season are the most by a Pirates hitter since Hall of Famer Willie Stargell (15) in 1973.