Cardinals' Holliday earns top NL honor

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06/21/2010 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday has been named the National League Player of the Week for the period ending June 20.

In six games during the week, Holliday batted .435 (10-for-23) with a major- league tying four homers. His 1.000 slugging percentage led the majors and eight runs batted in tied for second in the NL. He also had a .480 on-base percentage with six runs scored.

Holliday, who was switched to the No. 2 spot in the batting order for the first time in his career, was instrumental in the Cardinals winning two of three games from Oakland this past weekend. The right-handed hitting slugger went 8-for-12 in the series with a double, four homers and eight RBI.

It was Holliday's sixth career weekly honor and first since April 7-13, 2008, when he was playing for the Colorado Rockies.

Other nominees for the weekly award included, Cardinals' Adam Wainwright Milwaukee's Corey Hart, Pittsburgh's Andrew McCutchen, Philadelphia's Ryan Howard and Chase Utley, Atlanta's Martin Prado, Chipper Jones and Billy Wagner, San Diego's Adrian Gonzalez, Dodgers' Manny Ramirez and Clayton Kershaw, Florida's Gaby Sanchez and Josh Johnson and Colorado pitchers Jason Hammel and Ubaldo Jimenez.

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