Major League Baseball honored Seattle's Edwin Diaz and Pittsburgh's Felipe Vazquez on Thursday as July's American League and National League Relievers of the Month presented by The Hartford.
Diaz has been nothing shy of sensational for the upstart Mariners, and that continued in the month of July. Seattle's closer converted all nine of his save opportunities and did not allow a single earned run over 10 appearances last month, striking out 19 batters and walking just two while holding opponents to a microscopic .063 batting average.
Diaz's 40th save of the season Diaz's last save of the month marked his 40th of the 2018 season, making him just the fourth pitcher in Mariners history to reach that total in a single year.