Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals Named American League Player of the Month Presented by Chevrolet for July; Brenton Doyle of the Colorado Rockies Named National League Player of the Month Presented by Chevrolet for July

Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals has been voted the American League Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for July, and outfielder Brenton Doyle of the Colorado Rockies has been named the National League Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for July. The announcements were made earlier today on MLB Network.

Witt earned his first career Player of the Month Award and is the first Royals player to take home the honor since Billy Butler in September 2009. Kansas City’s 14 consecutive years without a Player of the Month Award was the longest active streak in the Majors. Doyle also claimed his first career honor and is the first Rockies player to take home the award since C.J. Cron in August 2021.

Bobby Witt Jr., Kansas City Royals (@bwitter7)
• The 24-year-old hit .489 (44-for-90) with seven homers, 22 RBI, eight doubles, a triple, six walks, 26 runs scored, two stolen bases, an .833 slugging percentage and a .520 on-base percentage in 23 games last month.
• The Texas native led the Majors in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging, OPS (1.353), hits (44), total bases (75) and runs; tied for sixth in extra-base hits (16) and ranked 10th in RBI.
• The 2024 All-Star had four consecutive three-hit games following his first Midsummer Classic, going 3-for-3 with a homer, two RBI and two runs on July 19th; 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run on July 20th; 3-for-4 with a run on July 21st; and 3-for-4 with a homer, a double, a triple, three RBI and three runs on July 22nd. Witt is one of three Royals players with at least three hits in four straight games, joining Hall of Famer George Brett, who had six straight three-hit games in 1976, and Johnny Damon, who also had four straight three-hit games in 2000.
• The second overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft recorded the second-highest batting average in any month in franchise history (min. 50 plate appearances), trailing only Brett, who hit .494 (42-for-85) in July 1980. Witt is the first Major League player to record at least 44 hits and a .489 batting average in any month since Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig in June 1930.
• Overall, the third-year shortstop has hit safely in each of his last 15 games since July 14th, marking the longest hitting streak of his career, surpassing a 14-game stretch from May 29th-June 13th this year. He is the first Royals player with multiple hitting streaks of at least 14 games within the same season since Alcides Escobar in 2016.
• He was the runner-up to Teoscar Hernández in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby at Globe Life Field, becoming the first Royals player to ever reach the Derby Finals. Witt’s 50 home runs overall were the most of any competitor in this year’s Derby. He did not slow down after the competition and on August 1st, he hit his 20th homer of the year, becoming the first player in Major League history to record at least 20 homers and at least 20 stolen bases in each of his first three seasons.
• Witt has recorded a Major League-best 47 multi-hit games this season, which includes a Major League-leading 17 three-hit games and two-four hit games. He had his seventh career four-hit game on July 29th at Chicago (AL).

Brenton Doyle, Colorado Rockies (@bdoyle_22)
• The 26-year-old hit .333 (30-for-90) with 11 homers, 27 RBI, seven doubles, a triple, nine walks, 15 runs scored, two stolen bases, an .800 slugging percentage and a .394 on-base percentage in 25 games last month.
• The Virginia native led the Majors in extra-base hits (19); tied for the Major League lead in homers; tied for second in RBI; tied for third in total bases (72); and ranked fourth in slugging and OPS (1.194).
• The 2023 Rawlings Gold Glover tallied multiple homers on July 1st against Milwaukee and July 9th at Cincinnati, marking his second and third career multi-homer games. He is the first Rockies player to hit at least 11 homers within a month since C.J. Cron in August 2021, and the fifth Rockies player with at least 11 homers in July, marking the first since Carlos Gonzalez in 2015.
• The fourth-round selection in the 2019 MLB Draft had hits in seven straight contests from July 12th-22nd, batting .300 (9-for-30) with three homers, seven RBI, and a .933 OPS during the stretch. The streak is tied for the longest in his career with another seven-game stretch from April 21st-28th earlier this season. Overall, he hit safely in 19 of his 25 games last month.
• The second-year outfielder had multiple hits in each of his first four games of the month, knocking a double in each of the contests. He became the eighth player in Rockies history with at least four straight multi-hit games, with each of the games featuring at least one double.
• The Shepherd University product became the first Rockies player in franchise history to tally at least at least 30 extrabase hits, 20 stolen bases and 15 homers prior to the All-Star break. Overall, he was one of four players to reach those marks this season, joining Witt Jr., Elly De La Cruz and Shohei Ohtani.

Others receiving votes for AL Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet included designated hitter Brent Rooker (.391, 11 HR, 30 RBI, 5 2B, 12 BB, 24 R, 5 SB, .828 SLG, .461 OBP) and outfielder Lawrence Butler (.363, 10 HR, 27 RBI, 6 2B, 2 3B, 7 BB, 23 R, 4 SB, .802 SLG, .408 OBP) of the Oakland Athletics.

Others receiving votes for NL Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet included third baseman Eugenio Suárez (.333, 10 HR, 27 RBI, 6 2B, 10 BB, 21 R, .733 SLG, .398 OBP) and second baseman Ketel Marte (.357, 7 HR, 23 RBI, 1 2B, 12 BB, 17 R, 3 SB, .619 SLG, .429 OBP) of the Arizona Diamondbacks; and shortstop Francisco Lindor (.274, 9 HR, 23 RBI, 3 2B, 16 BB, 18 R, 7 SB, .557 SLG, .384 OBP) of the New York Mets.