Cardinals' Freese takes NL weekly award

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05/03/2010 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - St. Louis Cardinals rookie third baseman David Freese was named the National League Player of the Week for the period ending May 2.

Freese hit .462 with three homers to go along with major league-high 11 runs batted in for the week. He also recorded a .500 on-base percentage and .923 slugging percentage. It was his first career weekly honor.

His best game came on Thursday in a 10-4 win over the Braves, when Freese knocked in a career-best six RBI and became the first Cardinals rookie to accomplish the feat since 1957.

Other nominees this past week included the Cardinals' Albert Pujols and Chris Carpenter, the Cubs' Alfonso Soriano and Ryan Theriot, Florida's Hanley Ramirez and Josh Johnson, the Dodgers' Andre Ethier, Atlanta's Jayson Heyward, Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez, and the Mets' David Wright and Rod Barajas.

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