{"id":1474,"date":"2011-03-28T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:59:11","slug":"unc-baseball-player-takes-national-player-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"UNC baseball player takes national player of the week honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/unc\/sports\/m-basebl\/auto_headshot\/5804747.jpeg\" title=\"Chris Moran.\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"105\" height=\"145\" \/>NEWS RELEASE &#8211; Freshman Colin Moran was named a National Player of the Week by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper on Monday for his effort in North Carolina&#8217;s 5-0 week. Moran finished the five game stretch with four home runs and 13 RBI for the Tar Heels. <\/p>\n<p>Moran started the week with the best single-game performance of his career going 3-for-4 with a run scored a six RBI in the 14-2 win over UNC Wilmington. The freshman third baseman connected on a triple and a two-run home run in the rout. <\/p>\n<p>The Rye, N.Y., native blasted another two-run home run in the 4-0 win over High Point on Wednesday before scoring and driving in a run in Friday&#8217;s 8-5 win over rival Duke. <\/p>\n<p>Moran went deep again on Saturday when he drove in the game-winning run against Duke with a solo home run in the sixth inning. Moran finished Saturday&#8217;s game with a season-high three runs scored. <\/p>\n<p>Moran capped off the weekend in style on Sunday when he connected on a game-tying three-run home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth against the Blue Devils. The home run capped off a day that saw Moran tally a pair of doubles, score two runs and drive in three more. <\/p>\n<p>For the week Moran hit .529 (9-17) with eight runs, 13 RBI, 25 total bases and slugged a remarkable 1.471. Moran also drew five walks, including two intentional free passes, and reached base at a .636 clip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE &#8211; Freshman Colin Moran was named a National Player of the Week by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper on Monday for his effort in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}