Kaleyl Anderson WK5 Player of the Week

Business as Usual for Padres Anderson

Forget that he missed a couple games. Forget that his first game back was one of only two games in which he was held hitless, (The entire team was that day). We don't need to mention that he leads the league in doubles and triples and is second only to teammate Solomon Bates in RBI's. And for the sake of time lets avoid even mentioning that in 11.2 innings on the mound, he has yet to allow a run, walked only 6 batters while striking out 20. Yeah let's blow off all that and focus on the week that earned Kaleyl Anderson, your vote and the majority of votes for this weeks Player of the week.

Now the week featured two games for Anderson, and while The Dodgers kept him Hitless Yet again, Kaleyl remained enough of a concern to cause Dodger pitching to walk him twice, allowing him to score two very important runs on the way to a 7-3 victory over the Dodgers. Kaleyl also worked one and one third innings allowing one walk and one hit to earn the save. That was the so so game. Thursday May 7th Kaleyl single handily sunk the Braves with his unbelievable performance at the plate. Anderson went 4 for 5 scoring twice including once on a homerun to left center field. More amazing than the 4 for 5 is the fact that he was credited with 8 RBI's officially on the night. Just the one night, just in one game. And we at THE REPORT estimate Kaleyl to have been involved with somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen runs scoring for the Padres ( cannot credit RBI's for errors). An absolutely phenomenal night caped off with another inning and a third save in which he allowed only one baserunner via the walk.

So the final line for Kaleyl's week that was:

4 for 7 1 HR, 8 RBI, 4R's 2.2 IP 1H 3K's 2SV's

Not too bad for a week, or in many cases such as Tye Andross, these numbers could represent a career. And just a follow up to Kaleyls dominance of the Braves; Saturday Kaleyl went 3 for 4 with two RBI, two Runs and two Doubles. while working one and two thirds innings to earn his third save. Seven hits in two games? Ten RBI? And Kaleyl still has one more game against the Braves.......Those lucky Braves.