And for the first time this year

A Rattler is an award winner.

Congratulations, Daniel Meadows. You're the Midwest League Pitcher of the Week!

The southpaw appeared in 3 games last week and in 10 innings allowed only 1 run while striking out 9 batters. Meadows picked up 2 wins during the week to improve his record to 4-0 for the season. On the year, he has pitched in 8 games and has a 3.26 ERA.

Making his first start since August 28, 2008, Meadows threw 5 shutout innings at Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium against South Bend on May 10, 2009. He struck out 5 and allowed only 3 hits to the Silver Hawks.

That is from the team release. The link up top will go to the MiLB.com page. When there is a link for the team release, I'll pass it along.