Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks has been on a roll lately and received an award for his efforts on Monday.
Hendricks and Ichiro Suzuki were named National League Co-Players of the Week for the period ending Aug. 7.
To earn the recognition, Hendricks went 2-0 with a 0.55 ERA with nine strikeouts in 16 1/3 innings. On Monday he pitched his third complete game and second career shutout. He followed that up with a win in Oakland on Sunday where he took a shutout into the eighth inning before allowing a solo home run. On the season Hendricks has a 2.17 ERA.
Hendricks' run is impressive, but it's not quite as impressive as Ichiro's accomplishment of reaching 3,000 hits on Sunday. The 42-year-old tripled in Colorado on Sunday for his 3,000th hit. He became the 30th player in MLB history to reach the milestone and only the fourth foreign-born player to do so.