Los Angeles Angels two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani has been named the American League Player of the Month for June, Major League Baseball said Friday.
Ohtani, who received the monthly honor for the first time in his four-year MLB career, batted .309 with an .889 slugging percentage, 13 homers, 23 RBIs, six doubles, a triple, 20 runs and four stolen bases across 25 games.
He hit two homers on June 29 to take his season's total to 28, giving him the sole lead in the MLB home run race. Six of them came over a six-game stretch from June 15 to 20.