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Adolis García was selected as Player of the Week in the American league from April 17 to 23 in the American League thanks to his spectacular performance in the series against Kansas City and Oakland. It is the second weekly award he has obtained in MLB, after also receiving it on April 25, 2021.
Adolis, who played in five games during this time span in which he hit .400, with two doubles, four home runs and 14 RBIs. The rest of his Slash Line also looked very robust (.458/1.100/1.158) during the week.
The night of April 22 when he faced Oakland was arguably the best night of his career, during the game he went a perfect (5-5), with three homers, two doubles, eight RBIs and five runs scored.
The outfielder from Ciego de Avila, Cuba became the fourth player of the modern era (since 1900) with at least three home runs and two doubles in a game; the previous ones: Kris Bryant (2016), Matt Carpenter (2018) and Alex Dickerson (2020).
He also became the first Cuban-born player with five XBHs in one game. In Rangers history, only three players (two of them Cuban) have posted 5 or more H’s, 3 or + HR’s and 8 or + RBI’s in a Major League game: Adolis García (2023), Josh Hamilton (2012 ) and José Canseco (1994).
Of the three, the only one who scored five times in game, and that man was García. García also becomes the only man in Texas Rangers, even in the American League, to swat three homers and two doubles in one game before.