{"id":157,"date":"2013-06-01T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/?p=157"},"modified":"2013-06-01T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T18:04:21","slug":"al-best-hitter-trophy-goes-to-pujols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/2013\/06\/01\/al-best-hitter-trophy-goes-to-pujols\/","title":{"rendered":"AL Best Hitter Trophy Goes to Pujols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mldsb.anpabaseball.com\/lgreports\/news\/html\/images\/person_pictures\/player_13888.png\" width=\"90\" height=\"135\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mldsb.anpabaseball.com\/forums\/images\/avatars\/gallery\/AL\/Los_Angeles_Angels_of_Anaheim.png\" width=\"106\" height=\"106\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, June 1st, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mldsb.anpabaseball.com\/lgreports\/news\/html\/players\/player_13888.html\">Albert Pujols<\/a> received the American League Batter of the Month trophy earlier today for his efforts at the plate this last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He might be getting older,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mldsb.anpabaseball.com\/lgreports\/news\/html\/teams\/team_44.html\">Los Angeles<\/a>&#8216;s manager told reporters, &#8220;But he&#8217;s been around long enough to know what it takes to put a stretch such as this together&#8230; and he doesn&#8217;t keep that to himself. He&#8217;s always talking to the younger guys in the clubhouse helping &#8217;em any way they&#8217;ll let him. Albert&#8217;s value to our team goes farther than the numbers he puts up on the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To win the honor Pujols put up a .310 batting average, 10 home runs, 28 RBIs and scored 27 times in May.<\/p>\n<p>This season <a href=\"http:\/\/mldsb.anpabaseball.com\/lgreports\/news\/html\/players\/player_13888.html\">Pujols<\/a> is batting .301 with 66 hits, 16 home runs, 49 RBIs, .392 OBP and has scored 42 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, June 1st, 2013 Albert Pujols received the American League Batter of the Month trophy earlier today for his efforts at the plate this last month. &#8220;He might be getting older,&#8221; Los Angeles&#8216;s manager told reporters, &#8220;But he&#8217;s been around long enough to know what it takes to put a stretch such as this together&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-team-news","category-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpabaseball.com\/MLDSB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}