{"id":308685,"date":"2026-05-26T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308685\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:09:19","slug":"sod-poodles-cristofer-torin-named-texas-league-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308685\/","title":{"rendered":"Sod Poodles\u2019 Cristofer Torin named Texas League Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Amarillo Sod Poodles infielder Cristofer Torin earned Texas League Player of the Week honors for May 18-24 after his performance in a home series against Northwest Arkansas, Minor League Baseball announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Torin\u2019s recognition extends a streak to three consecutive weeks that an Amarillo player has received a Texas League weekly award.<\/p>\n<p>Dominant week at the plate<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Torin recorded at least one hit in all five games against the Naturals, starting four games at shortstop and one at designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He posted his best game Thursday, going 4-for-4 with three RBIs. Torin came within a triple of hitting for the cycle and strung together hits in eight consecutive plate appearances during the series.<\/p>\n<p>Leading Double-A in key categories<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Torin finished the week 12-for-22 (.545) with seven runs scored, four doubles, two triples and his fourth home run of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His 1.610 OPS led all qualified Double-A hitters for the week. Torin\u2019s 12 hits and seven extra-base hits were the most across Double-A.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Amarillo player honored this season<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Torin is the fourth Sod Poodles player to earn a Texas League weekly award this season, joining Manny Pena and Gavin Conticello on the hitting side and pitcher Josh Grosz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Sod Poodles are 23-21 and sit half a game behind first place in the Texas League South. Amarillo begins a six-game series Tuesday at Momentum Bank Ballpark against the first-place Midland RockHounds.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; Amarillo Sod Poodles infielder Cristofer Torin earned Texas League Player of the Week honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}