First-place teams sweep weekly awards for May 20-26

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (May 28, 2019) - Down East slugger Ryan Dorow and Wilmington left-hander Daniel Lynch have earned the Carolina League's Player and Pitcher of the Week honors for May 20-26, the league office announced on Tuesday.
Dorow paced both the Carolina League and all of High-A baseball with four home runs and 10 RBIs last week. The former Adrian College star also led the CL in slugging percentage (.840) and total bases (21), while he was in the top 10 in OPS (2nd, 1.259), runs (T-4th, six) and hits (T-4th, 10).

The Rangers' 30th-round pick in 2017, Dorow used his big week to surge inside the league's top 10 in both home runs (T-3rd, 8) and RBIs (8th, 32) for the season. In his first stint at the High-A level, Dorow has posted a .274 average in 47 games.
Lynch logged a pair of scoreless starts last week to collect his first professional weekly award. Last Monday at Salem, Lynch blanked the Red Sox on three hits over six innings in a 2-0 Blue Rocks win. He followed that up by scattering five hits over seven shutout innings on Saturday in a 2-1 victory at home over Myrtle Beach. This stretch pushed his current scoreless streak to 22 innings, dating back to the third inning of his start on May 8.
The former University of Virginia ace was one of three pitchers in Minor League Baseball with 13 or more innings of scoreless work last week, joining last year's first-overall pick Casey Mize (Double-A Erie) and Thad Ward (Low-A Greenville).
Entering Tuesday's action, Dorow and the Wood Ducks enjoy a five-and-a-half-game lead on Carolina for the top spot in the Southern Division, while Lynch and the Blue Rocks are six games up on both Frederick and Lynchburg in the Northern Division.