Pete Alonso and Corbin Carroll both turned in week-long stretches that made the latest Player of the Week awards feel inevitable.
Alonso took home the honor for the sixth time in his career and for the first time as an Oriole, giving Baltimore another weekly winner after Gunnar Henderson on Sept. 9, 2024.
He’s now the only player to earn a weekly award in each of the past five seasons. Last week, Alonso caught fire across six games, picking up hits in all of them and going 12-for-22 with a .545 average, a double, two homers and five RBIs.
One of the highlights came Friday, when he delivered a two-hit night while batting leadoff for the first time as a professional ... or amateur.
Carroll matched that consistency by hitting safely in all six of his games as well, piling up three multihit efforts along the way. The D-backs right fielder finished 9-for-22 with a .409 average, three doubles, two triples, two homers and a steal. It was his third career NL Player of the Week nod, after winning in both 2023 and ’25.
The two triples pushed Carroll to an MLB-best 15 for the season, a total nobody else has come close to matching - the next closest player has seven. He also looks set to finish first in the NL in triples for the fourth straight full season to open his career. Carroll is the third Arizona player to claim the award this season, joining Ildemaro Vargas on April 27 and Ketel Marte on May 26.
Elsewhere, Royals speedster Tyler Tolbert made the kind of play that can change a game without a run ever scoring. On Saturday, he sprinted into center field, laid out after a long chase and came away with a spectacular diving catch that robbed the Angels’ Denzer Guzman of extra bases to open the seventh inning in a scoreless game.
In Other News...
Diamondbacks Suddenly Lose Ketel Marte In A Situation Fans Didn't Expect
A sudden roster shakeup left the Diamondbacks scrambling around second base after Ketel Marte was placed on the restricted list and Jose Fernandez was recalled from Triple-A to take his spot. The move came in the middle of a series against the Red Sox, turning what should have been a routine lineup decision into something much more complicated for Arizona, since a player on the restricted list is not paid and does not accumulate MLB service time until he returns.
The timing made the situation especially jarring for a club trying to keep its focus on the field. Marte had been expected to be available against Boston, and Arizona had to pivot quickly to cover the infield without him. For now, the Diamondbacks are left managing the baseball side of the issue while the bigger question around Marte hangs over the team. [Read more 🡒]
Diamondbacks Clear Space As Recent Pitching Addition Nears Abrupt Exit
A roster shuffle around the pitching staff brought a familiar name back into the picture for Arizona, as Justin Martnez is set to be reinstated from the 60-day injured list. To make room, the Diamondbacks moved right-hander Andrew Hoffmann off the 40-man roster, a sign of how quickly bullpen and depth-chart decisions can turn when a healthy arm is ready to return.
Hoffmann, who came over from the Royals more than a year ago, had already been on the minor league injured list when Arizona made the move, and his major league stint never really got off the ground. Because he is still injured and the trade deadline has already passed, the next step is more complicated than a normal outright assignment, leaving his status in a different kind of limbo as the Diamondbacks clear space and sort out the back end of the roster. [Read more 🡒]
Diamondbacks Hit An Infield Scare At The Worst Possible Time
A late-August loss already had enough weight attached to it, and the Diamondbacks got a little more bad news in the middle of Sundays 5-3 defeat to the Braves. Gabriel Moreno and Ildemaro Vargas each went deep in the series finale, but the more pressing development came when Nolan Arenado exited in the fourth inning with left trunk discomfort and Vargas slid over to third base in his place. With Arizona trying to keep pace in a crowded stretch of the season, any infield scare carries a little extra anxiety.
Arenados exit only adds to the kind of moving pieces the club has had to manage around the roster, and the timing is far from ideal. The Diamondbacks also made a transaction, selecting Dennis Santana and designating Philip Abner for assignment, a reminder that the bench and bullpen are getting adjusted even as the lineup takes on more uncertainty. For a team trying to hold together its everyday core, the next update on Arenado may end up mattering a lot more than the final score did. [Read more 🡒]