The first month of the season saw plenty of surprise breakouts in addition to the usual suspects living up to their lofty hype. A's starter Sean Manaea -- touted this spring to potentially have a breakout season -- tossed the Majors' first no-hitter of 2018, and Max Scherzer -- the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner -- picked up right where he left off.
On Wednesday, Scherzer and Manaea were named the NL and American League Pitchers of the Month.
It's the third time Scherzer has been honored, all with the Nationals, while it's the first for Manaea, who was named the AL Co-Player of the Week for the week ending on April 22 after tossing the no-no against the Red Sox, becoming the first pitcher to no-hit the Majors' top offense entering that day since 1990, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.