PCL Names Players of the Week
June 23, 2003 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1) News Release
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.â Las Vegas 51s outfielder Chad Hermansen becomes the first batter, and second player, to win two Pacific Coast League weekly awards this season, earning Batter of the Week honors by hitting .583 for games beginning on June 16 and continuing through June 22. Hermansen, who won the same award on June 2, joins Tacoma pitcher Craig Anderson as the only players to repeat as winners in 2003. Sacramento right-hander Rich Harden claims the Pitcher of the Week award by virtue of throwing 7-1/3 shut-out innings en route to his eighth victory of the season.
Hermansen, a Las Vegas native, took his hot bat on the road to Canada, where he began a series in Edmonton on June 17 by going 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored. That was just a prelude to the outfielder's performance the following day, when he went 5-for-5 with four runs scored, two doubles, a triple, and a run batted in. When the 51s traveled to Salt Lake on June 21, the Los Angeles Dodgers farmhand continued his torrid hitting, going 2-for-5 with a home run, a double, one run scored and two driven in. Hermansen, who has raised his batting average on the season to .391, is the fourth different Las Vegas player to win one of the PCL's weekly awards this season.
Victoria, British Columbia, resident Harden took advantage of his June 20 start against Salt Lake by throwing 7-plus shut-out innings, allowing just two hits and two walks while striking out eight. The Oakland A's prospect increased his record to 8-2 while lowering his earned run average to 2.88, fifth-best in the Pacific Coast League. The hard throwing Canadian also ranks among the League's top five in strikeouts with 71 on the season. Like Las Vegas, Sacramento now has had four different PCL Players of the Week in the 2003 campaign.
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