To anyone paying attention, the American League Player of the Month for June was obvious. He slashed .395/.434/.658 with 26 runs scored, 45 hits, eight doubles, two triples and six home runs. He drove in 29 runs in 25 games. But in case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s Yankees infielder DJ LeMahieu. The infielder had his 14-game hitting streak snapped Tuesday night, but between June 23-30, he hit .643/.667/1.214 with three homers and 13 RBI. He became the first Yankee since Carlos Beltran in 2014 to post a multi-hit streak of six-or-more games, and his 35 multi-hit games were the most for a Yankees player across the club’s first 82 games of a season since Alfonso Soriano (35) in 2003. LeMahieu also logged a 12-game streak from June 16-30 in which he tallied at least one hit and a run scored. Tied for the sixth-longest streak in franchise history, trailing only Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig (15, 1930), Joe DiMaggio (14, 1941) and Babe Ruth (14, 1926; 13, 1921), as well as Bernie Williams (13, 2000). He is the seventh different Yankee to amass at least 45 hits, 16 extra-base hits and 29 RBI in a month, and the first since Don Mattingly in September/October 1985.
DJ LeMahieu is named American League Player of the Month for June
To anyone paying attention, the American League Player of the Month for June was obvious. He slashed .395/.434/.658 with 26 runs scored, 45 hits, eight doubles, two triples and six home runs. He drove in 29 runs in 25 games. But in case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s Yankees infielder DJ LeMahieu. The infielder had his 14-game hitting streak snapped Tuesday night, but between June 23-30, he hit .643/.667/1.214 with three homers and 13 RBI. He became the first Yankee since Carlos Beltran in 2014 to post a multi-hit streak of six-or-more games, and his 35 multi-hit games were the most for a Yankees player across the club’s first 82 games of a season since Alfonso Soriano (35) in 2003. LeMahieu also logged a 12-game streak from June 16-30 in which he tallied at least one hit and a run scored. Tied for the sixth-longest streak in franchise history, trailing only Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig (15, 1930), Joe DiMaggio (14, 1941) and Babe Ruth (14, 1926; 13, 1921), as well as Bernie Williams (13, 2000). He is the seventh different Yankee to amass at least 45 hits, 16 extra-base hits and 29 RBI in a month, and the first since Don Mattingly in September/October 1985.
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