DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 22, 2019) — Quad Cities River Bandits pitcher Shawn Dubin has been named the Midwest League Pitcher of the Week for the week of April 15-21. He is the first River Bandits player to receive a weekly honor from the league this season.
Dubin pitched only once during the week, making his first start of the season last Monday in Cedar Rapids. The right-hander tossed 6.0 scoreless-innings and allowed just one hit while striking out seven. His efforts resulted in Dubin picking up his first win of the campaign.
For the season, Dubin has made three appearances and worked a total of 12.0 innings. He has collected 19 strike-outs while allowing just seven hits. Dubin earned the save in each of his first two appearances. On April 9 in Clinton, he combined with Austin Hansen to strike out 20 LumberKings. Dubin struck out nine over the final 4.0 innings of the contest.
The native of Allegany, New York was selected by the Astros in the 13th round of the 2018 MLB Draft out of Georgetown College, an NAIA school in Kentucky. He was 2-1 with a 4.60 earned run average with Tri-City last season.
The River Bandits open a three-game series against the Peoria Chiefs at 6:35PM on Monday night in Peoria. All River Bandits games are broadcast on 1170 K-BOB and TuneIn Radio. Home games are also available with video on MiLB.TV.
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.
