PCL Player & Pitcher of the Week Announced
Published on September 8, 2010 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1) News Release
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A pair of 31-year-old veterans have been named the final Pacific Coast League Player and Pitcher of the Week of the 2010 season, the league announced Tuesday.
Jason Dubois of the Iowa Cubs, a 14th round selection in the 2000 first-year player draft, put together one of the strongest weeks of any player at any level during the 2010 campaign. In eight games from August 30-September 6, Dubois collected three multi-home run games, five multi- RBI games and seven multi-hit games. In total, he batted .529 (18-for-34) with six home runs, 18 runs batted in, 11 runs scored, four doubles, a triple and two walks. His incredible 42 total bases topped the league leaderboard, as did his 1.791 OPS (on base plus slugging percentage).
The 6-foot-5 right-handed slugger did everything he could do to try to help the I-Cubs win the American Northern Division, going 9-for-16 with five extra-base hits and seven RBI in the four- game split with Memphis. The pair of homers he hit in Monday's finale gave Iowa a 6-3 lead in the late innings of the deciding game, eventually won by the Redbirds by a score of 7-6.
Shane Loux of the Round Rock Express capped an up-and-down season with a nine-inning, complete game shutout of Albuquerque on September 3, earning a 3-0 victory in the contest. The right-handed hurler breezed through the potent Isotopes lineup, striking out six batters and scattering five hits without issuing a walk. The win was his fourth in his last five decisions, helping to erase the memory of 10 straight losses he endured from June 14-August 7.
The shutout performance was the ninth of Loux's long career, one that began as a 17-year-old in the Detroit Tigers system after being drafted in the second round of the 1997 first-year player draft. The 6-foot-2 veteran is the author of 93 professional victories, including three as a member of the Tigers and Los Angeles Angels in the Major Leagues.
The Pacific Coast League would also like to officially recognize the performance of Omaha's Mike Moustakas this past week. On August 30, the 21-year-old phenom put his name in the all- time record books by slugging three home runs and driving in 11 runs in the Royals' 23-5 drubbing of the Round Rock Express.
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