{"id":817342,"date":"2026-09-29T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/817342\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:45:19","slug":"cincinnati-reds-elly-de-la-cruz-named-nl-player-of-month-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/817342\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds: Elly De La Cruz named NL Player of Month | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Reds Braves Baseball\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload ap-photo full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abbe41cd0105.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz puts the ball in play against the Atlanta Braves during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo\/Erik S. Lesser)<\/p>\n<p>                                    Erik S. Lesser<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz was named the National League Player of the Month on Tuesday, Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<p>In September, De La Cruz, 24, hit .348 (31 for 89) with nine home runs, 19 RBIs, six doubles, 14 walks, six stolen bases and 18 runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz led baseball in total bases (64) in the month. He ranked second in home runs.<\/p>\n<p>In his fourth season, De La Cruz set career bests in batting average (.283) and home runs (30).<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz, who stole 30 bases, became the fourth player in Reds history to hit at least 30 home runs and steal 30 or more bases in the same season. The others are: Brandon Phillips (30\/32 in 2007), Barry Larkin (33\/36 in 1996) and Eric Davis (37\/50 in 1987).<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz is the eighth player in baseball history to steal at least 30 bases in his first four seasons. He has 169 stolen bases in his career.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz is the second Red to win the player of the month award in 2026. JJ Bleday won in May. Prior to that, no Red had won the award since Joey Votto in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to Elly De La Cruz on being named the NL Player of the Month\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Tu8zWMW6S\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4Tu8zWMW6S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Reds\/status\/2104949010893021232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz puts the ball in play against the Atlanta Braves during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,4259,4,536],"class_list":["post-817342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-mlb","tag-reds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117355343319515876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}