Seattle Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma received Player of the Week honors Monday afternoon, two days after tossing the first no-hitter by an American League pitcher since 2012.
Honors in the National League went to another pitcher, San Francisco Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner, who earned the accolade for the first time in his career. He hurled a pair of complete games, allowing just one run with a 26-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 18 innings last week.
Iwakuma, 34, became just the second Japanese-born pitcher to record a no-hitter when he blanked the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. It was the fifth no-hitter in Mariners history.
The last AL pitcher to throw a no-hitter, as it happens, was Felix Hernandez, who has shared a clubhouse with Iwakuma for the last four years and hurled the 23rd perfect game in MLB history on Aug. 15, 2012.
Bumgarner, who leads the NL with three complete games, also clobbered his fourth home run of the season in Sunday's 5-0 victory over the Washington Nationals, while notching 14 strikeouts over nine superb innings.
