Means’ no-hitter last week against the Seattle Mariners marked the Orioles’ first since 1991 and their first by a single pitcher since Jim Palmer in 1969. It also earned Means American League Player of the Week honors, Major League Baseball announced Monday. He’s the first Baltimore pitcher to earn that recognition since Arthur Rhodes in August 1994.
Unlike Rhodes, who threw shutouts in consecutive starts to end his 1994 season, Means got only one outing in his award-winning week, but it was a good one. He struck out 12 Mariners and walked none in his first career complete game, throwing a first-pitch strike to all but one of the 27 batters he faced.