Ward Named PCL Player of the Week
Outfielder becomes first Oklahoma City player to receive the honor in 2024
Ryan Ward hit two home runs Sunday — his second multi-homer outing in his last four games — and on Monday was named the Pacific Coast League Player of the Week for April 22–28.
Ward, 25, went 9-for-19 over five games during the Oklahoma City Baseball Club’s road series in Albuquerque last week, hitting five home runs and a double, while also scoring eight runs and racking up 11 RBI.
Since April 23, Ward’s five homers and 11 RBI are the most in Triple-A. On Sunday, he hit a solo homer in his first at-bat in the second inning, then hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning. On April 15, he tied his career high with six RBI, hitting three-run homers in both the fourth and seventh innings at Isotopes Park.
Monday marked his first weekly honor at the Triple-A level and he became the first OKC player in 2024 to receive a weekly league recognition from Minor League Baseball.
The native of Millbury, Mass., leads OKC with 10 home runs this season — second-most in the PCL — while his 29 RBI are second-most in the league, his 17 extra-base hits are tied for second and his .667 SLG is fourth.
Seventeen of his 24 total hits in 2024 have gone for extra bases as he has eight homers in his last 13 games and nine homers in his last 17 games.
Ward led OKC with 95 RBI last season — finishing with the fourth-most RBI in the PCL and making him the ninth player in OKC’s Bricktown era (since 1998) with at least 95 RBI in a single season. Ward also led the PCL with 139 games played in 2023 — the most by an OKC player in a single season since at least 2005.
The 5-foot, 11-inch, 200-pound outfielder was originally selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth round of the 2019 MLB Draft out of Bryant University.
