Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco is Thursday’s Box-Toppers Player of the Day.

Top 10 players

Here are the top 10 players in Box-Toppers points (BTP) for the 2016 season as of June 30:


	Player	Pos	Team	BTP
1	Kershaw, Clayton 2494	pi sp	lad nl	20.0
2	Fernandez, Jose 3147	pi sp	fla nl	13.4
3	Scherzer, Max 2588	pi sp	dc nl	12.0
4	Cueto, Johnny 2400	pi sp	sf nl	11.7
5	Kluber, Corey 3200	pi sp	cle al	10.8
6	Arrieta, Jake 2738	pi sp	chi nl	10.7
7	Sale, Chris 2806	pi sp	chi al	10.7
8	Salazar, Danny 3223	pi sp	cle al	10.5
9	Hamels, Cole 2135	pi sp	tex al	10.4
10	Syndergaard, Noah 3472	pi sp	nym nl	10.0

What are those numbers after players' names?

Carrasco struck out 14 over 7 1/3 innings, allowing one run, three hits and two walks, in the 4-1 win over the Blue Jays.

Carrasco earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day, giving him 6.7 for the season (most of any of Thursday’s 11 Players of the Games), rising to 31st place among all players, ninth among American League pitchers.

National League Player of the Day—Danny Espinosa of the Nationals hit a grand slam and a three-run homer in the 13-4 win over the Reds. Espinosa went 2-for-4, driving in seven runs.

American League Batter of the Day—Cameron Maybin of the Tigers doubled and went 3-for-4, scoring once and driving in four runs, in the 10-7 win over the Rays.

National League Batter of the Day—There is no separate NL Batter of the Day for Thursday because the NL Player of the Day was batter Danny Espinosa.

Debut—Mets pitcher Erik Goeddel made his Box-Toppers debut Thursday, the first time in his career he earned Player of the Game honors.

Goeddel (1.2IP 0H 0R 0BB 2K W in the 4-3 win over the Cubs) made his Major League debut Sept. 1, 2014, and was playing in his 48th career game. He is the 3,672nd player to debut in Box-Toppers since record keeping began in 1995.

Scoring—Carrasco earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day and Espinosa earns 1.7 points for being NL Player of the Day. Maybin earns 1.5 points for being AL Batter of the Day. All of Thursday’s other Players of the Game (listed in the chart below) earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point.

About Box-Toppers—Box-Toppers tracks who most helps their team win the most games. Using standard box score statistics, Box-Toppers uses a simple formula to determine a Player of the Game for each Major League Baseball game played. That player is the person who contributed most to his team’s win. In regular season games, players earn 1.0 Box-Toppers point for being named Player of the Game and can earn bonus points for being Player of the Day or top player or batter in their league for the day.

Top player from each game

Listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score

  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  

    6/30
    Score
    Game
    Player of Game
    AB
    R
    H
    BI
    
    IP
    H
    R
    ER
    BB
    K
  

    MLB
    14.1
    CLE 4/TOR 1
    Carlos Carrasco (W,4-2)
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    7.1
    3
    1
    1
    2
    14
  

    
    11.0
    `NYY 2/TEX 1
    Michael Pineda
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    6.0
    2
    1
    1
    3
    12
  

    NL
    7.0
    DC 13/CIN 4
    Danny Espinosa, SS
    4
    2
    2
    7
    
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
  

    
    5.1
    SEA 5/BAL 3
    Taijuan Walker (W,4-6)
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    6.1
    4
    1
    1
    0
    5
  

    
    5.0
    LAD 8/MIL 1
    Kenta Maeda (W,7-5)
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    6.0
    3
    1
    1
    2
    6
  

    BAT
    4.0
    DET 10/TB 7
    Cameron Maybin, CF
    4
    1
    3
    4
    
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
  

    
    3.2
    NYM 4/CHC 3
    Erik Goeddel (W,1-0)
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    1.2
    0
    0
    0
    0
    2
  

    
    3.0
    ATL 8/MIA 5
    Brandon Snyder, PH
    1
    1
    1
    2
    
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
  

    
    3.0
    CHW 6/MIN 5
    David Robertson (S,21)
    -
    -
    -
    -
    
    1.0
    1
    0
    0
    0
    3
  

    
    2.0
    SF 12/OAK 6
    Brandon Belt, 1B
    5
    1
    2
    4
    
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
  

    
    2.0
    KC 4/STL 2
    Kendrys Morales, RF
    4
    1
    3
    2
    
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
    -
  

    
    
    `Denotes that the pitcher had a no-decision in the game and did not pick up a win or a save.
  

Box-Toppers point totals of the day’s top players

Here are Box-Toppers point totals of each of the Players of the Game. Players are ranked by their Box-Toppers point total for the current season (16). Also shown are each players’ Box-Toppers point total for this season and last (15-16), the period 2011-2016 (11-16) and each players’ career point total. Also shown is how their 2016 Box-Toppers point total compares with their 2015 total (+/-).


Player of Game	Pos	Team	16	15-16	11-16	Career	+/-
Carrasco, Carlos 2885	pi sp	cle al	6.7	24.7	40.8	40.8	-11.3
Walker, Taijuan 3453	pi sp	sea al	5.7	19.4	19.4	19.4	-8.0
Belt, Brandon 2943	1b	sf nl	5.0	6.5	18.5	18.5	3.5
Maeda, Kenta 3609	pi sp	lad nl	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0
Robertson, David 2774	pi cp	chi al	4.0	12.0	24.0	25.0	-4.0
Pineda, Michael 2841	pi sp	nyy al	3.0	13.7	31.1	31.1	-7.7
Morales, Kendrys 2142	dh	kc al	3.0	7.7	17.7	33.7	-1.7
Espinosa, Danny 2804	ss 2b	dc nl	1.7	4.7	13.4	15.4	-1.3
Maybin, Cameron 2672	cf	det al	1.5	2.5	10.0	14.0	0.5
Snyder, Brandon 3017	3b ph	atl nl	1.0	1.0	2.7	2.7	1.0
Goeddel, Erik 3672	pi mr	nym nl	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0