DAVENPORT, IOWA (June 24, 2019) — Quad Cities River Bandits outfielder Ross Adolph has been named the Midwest League Player of the Week for the week of June 17-23. He has received the honor for a second consecutive week. Adolph is the only River Bandits position player to earn a weekly award in 2019. Jose Bravo, Shawn Dubin, Luis Garcia and Cody Deason have each been named pitcher of the week previously.
Adolph played in three games during the week following the all-star break and went 7-14 at the plate in a road series against Beloit. Five of his seven hits went for extra-bases as he racked up three doubles, a triple, and a home run. Adolph drove in a pair of runs and scored four of his own. He finished Thursday’s game a triple shy of the cycle after being thrown out at third base on his fourth and final hit of the night.
The 22-year old is batting .227 with 6 home runs and 24 RBI in 62 games this season. He is hitting .330 in 28 games since May 20th. 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.
The River Bandits are currently 45-24 and will return to play on Tuesday night in Burlington at 6:30PM. The team returns to Modern Woodmen Park on Thursday, June 27, 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.
