Diamondbacks pitcher Patrick Corbin 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 2017 season as of Aug. 17:| Player | Pos | Team | BTP | |
| 1 | Kershaw, Clayton 2494 | pi sp | lad nl | 22.1 |
| 2 | Scherzer, Max 2588 | pi sp | dc nl | 22.0 |
| 3 | Sale, Chris 2806 | pi sp | bos al | 21.1 |
| 4 | Greinke, Zack 1871 | pi sp | ari nl | 15.4 |
| 5 | Santana, Ervin 2005 | pi sp | min al | 14.4 |
| 6 | Severino, Luis 3567 | pi sp | nyy nl | 14.1 |
| 7 | Kluber, Corey 3200 | pi sp | cle al | 14.0 |
| 8 | Wood, Alex 3246 | pi sp | lad nl | 14.0 |
| 9 | Paxton, James 3280 | pi sp | sea al | 13.7 |
| 10 | Carrasco, Carlos 2885 | pi sp | cle al | 13.4 |
Also Thursday, Yankees pitcher Luis Severino rises to sixth place in Box-Toppers season player rankings after earning American League Player of the Day honors.
Player of the Day—Corbin pitched 8 2/3 scoreless innings, striking out seven and allowing four hits and one walk, in the 4-0 win over the Astros.
American League Player of the Day—Yankees pitcher Luis Severino struck out nine over 6 1/3 innings, allowing one run, four hits and three walks, in the 7-5 win over the Mets.
Severino earns 1.7 Box-Toppers points for being AL Player of the Day, giving him 14.1 for the season and rising into the top 10 in Box-Toppers season player rankings, into sixth place. He ranks third among AL pitchers, behind Chris Sale of the Red Sox (21.1) and Ervin Santana of the Twins (14.4).
With his rise into the top 10, Severino pushes Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom (12.7) from Box-Toppers top 10 into 11th place.
National League Batter of the Day—Phillip Ervin of the Reds homered, doubled and went 3-for-4, scoring three times and driving in four runs, in the 13-10 win over the Cubs.
This was Ervin’s Box-Toppers debut, the first time in his career he earned Player of the Game honors. Ervin made his Major League debut April 22 and was playing in his fifth career game. He is the 3,866th player to debut in Box-Toppers since record keeping began in 1995.
American League Batter of the Day—Yan Gomes of the Indians hit a three-run homer and went 3-for-3, scoring twice and driving in four runs, in the 9-3 win over the Twins.
Top 10 watch—Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco, who was ranked ninth in Box-Toppers season player rankings going into Thursday, did not earn Player of the Game honors in his team’s 9-3 win over the Twins.
Carrasco (5IP 5H R BB 9K W) had a Box-Toppers game score of +6.0, which was tied with teammate Yan Gomes (HR 3-3 2R 4BI). However, Gomes earned Player of the Game honors over Carrasco because in cases of game score ties between pitchers and batters, batters have the edge.
Carrasco has 13.4 Box-Toppers points on the season and now ranks 10th among all players, sixth among AL pitchers.
Scoring—Corbin earns 2.0 Box-Toppers points for being Player of the Day and Severino earns 1.7 points for being AL Player of the Day. Ervin and Gomes each earn 1.5 points for being their league’s 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.
Box-Toppers strives for accuracy. See a mistake in a post? A wrong name, wrong team, grammar error, spelling goof, etc.? Thanks for pointing it out! Contact Box-Toppers here. Let's fix it and make it right.
Top player from each game
Listed from highest to lowest Box-Toppers game score| 8/17 | Score | Game | Player of the Game | AB | R | H | BI | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | |
| MLB | 10.2 | ARI 4, HOU 0 | Patrick Corbin (W, 10-11) | - | - | - | - | 8.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| AL | 7.1 | NYY 7, NYM 5 | Luis Severino (W, 10-5) | - | - | - | - | 6.1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |
| BAT | 6.0 | CIN 13, CHC 10 | Phillip Ervin RF | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| BAT | 6.0 | CLE 9, MIN 3 | Yan Gomes C | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 5.0 | STL 11, PIT 7 | Dexter Fowler CF | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 4.0 | TEX 9, CHW 8 | Nomar Mazara RF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 4.0 | ATL 10, COL 4 | Ender Inciarte CF | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 4.0 | TOR 5, TB 3 | Josh Donaldson 3B | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 3.0 | WSH 2, SD 1 | Sean Doolittle (S, 10) | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2.2 | MIN 4, CLE 2 | Matt Belisle (S, 3) | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2.0 | SF 5, PHI 4 | Jarrett Parker LF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
AL—Overall American League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box-Toppers points.
NL—Overall National League Player of the Day, worth 1.7 total Box-Toppers points.
BAT—Top AL or NL Batter of the Day, worth 1.5 total Box-Toppers points.
All other players listed here earn Player of the Game honors, worth 1.0 Box-Toppers point.
` 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 (’17). Also shown are each players’ Box-Toppers point total for this season and last (’16-17), the period 2012-2017 (’12-17) and each players’ career point total. Also shown is how their 2017 Box-Toppers point total compares with their 2016 total (+/-).| Player of the Game | Pos | Team | ’17 | ’16-17 | ’12-17 | Career | +/- |
| Severino, Luis 3567 | pi sp | nyy al | 14.1 | 16.1 | 19.1 | 19.1 | 12.1 |
| Fowler, Dexter 2698 | cf | stl nl | 6.0 | 7.5 | 21.5 | 24.0 | 4.5 |
| Inciarte, Ender 3360 | cf | atl nl | 5.5 | 7.5 | 11.5 | 11.5 | 3.5 |
| Mazara, Nomar 3614 | rf | tex al | 5.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 12.0 | -2.0 |
| Corbin, Patrick 3027 | pi sp | ari nl | 5.0 | 8.7 | 37.5 | 37.5 | 1.3 |
| Donaldson, Josh 3144 | 3b | tor al | 4.5 | 14.2 | 44.1 | 44.1 | -5.2 |
| Gomes, Yan 3177 | ca | cle al | 4.5 | 5.5 | 13.7 | 13.7 | 3.5 |
| Doolittle, Sean 3052 | pi cp | dc nl | 4.0 | 5.0 | 17.0 | 17.0 | 3.0 |
| Parker, Jarrett 3600 | lf | sf nl | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.0 |
| Belisle, Matt 1975 | pi cp | min al | 2.0 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 18.0 | 2.0 |
| Ervin, Phillip 3866 | rf | cin nl | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |