DAVENPORT, IOWA (June 17, 2019) — Quad Cities River Bandits outfielder Ross Adolph has been named the Midwest League Player of the Week and pitcher Jose Bravo the league’s Pitcher of the Week for the week of June 10-16. Adolph is the first River Bandits position player to earn a weekly award in 2019. Bravo is the fourth River Bandits pitcher to be honored by the league, joining Shawn Dubin, Luis Garcia, and Cody Deason.
Adolph played in six games during the week, going 8-21 at the plate with a double, two home-runs, and four runs batted in. He also walked five times and scored eight runs. Adolph’s two-run home-run in the seventh inning on Sunday turned out to be the decisive blow in the Bandits 3-2 win over Wisconsin to close the first half.
The 22-year old is batting .206 with 5 home runs and 22 RBI in 59 games this season. Adolph is in his first season with the Astros organization after being acquired from the New York Mets in a trade this January. He was selected by the Mets in the 12th round of the 2018 MLB Draft out of the University of Toledo.
Bravo was dominant in his one appearance on the mound during the week. He earned the win in a rain-shortened game against Wisconsin on Saturday by tossing 6.0 scoreless frames. He allowed just one hit in the contest and retired the final 16 batters he faced while striking out seven.
Bravo is 1-1 with a 3.45 earned run average in six starts with the Bandits this year. He has recorded 26 strikeouts and allowed 26 hits in 31.1 innings. Bravo, signed by the Astros as an international free-agent from Mexico in 2016, has pitched for all four full-season affiliates in the farm system this season.
The River Bandits won the first half Western Division title and reached the all-star break with a 43-23 record. They will return to action on Thursday night in Beloit with a 6:30 p.m. first pitch at Pohlman Field. The team returns to Modern Woodmen Park on June 27th to host Burlington at 6:35PM.
ABOUT THE BANDITS: The 2019 season marks the River Bandits’ seventh year as the Class-A affiliate of the Houston Astros and the twelfth anniversary season of regaining the River Bandits moniker, which was voted a top-8 nickname in all of Minor League Baseball in 2015. The River Bandits anchor the Quad Cities sports-market, which The Sports Business Journal in their latest rankings named one of the top-two minor-league sports-market in the country. Each year the River Bandits donate three annual all-tuition-paid college scholarships, a value of approximately $85,000, as part of the Bandit Scholars Program, which has been in place since 2009. Charitable contributions surpassed $600,000 in 2018, including a $100,000 cash donation to Genesis Health Systems; in 2015 and again in 2017, Ballpark Digest awarded the Bandits its “Best Charity Campaign” of the year, making the River Bandits the only team to win that coveted award twice.
