The Ding Dong Challenge: Giancarlo Stanton knocks himself back into the Elites

Welcome to the Ding Dong Challenge, a game were we try and correctly predict who will hit the most home runs in a given week, keep score throughout the entire season and win a free, awesome t-shirt. Here’s last week’s report card and this week’s list of “elites”. If you want to play, just pick one player from the “elites” and two players from the “everyone else” category (which is just everyone who’s not elite), then list your team in the comments. The sooner you create your team, the better as you only get the homers from when your team is posted till the end of the week.

Congrats to Heath who, despite not knowing why he played this week, scored double digit dongers for the first time in Ding Dong history. My boy Just Dingers had a strong week knocking four dongs but where Heath really made his money was with Giancarlo Stanton who batted himself right back into the elites as he went yard five times last week. Shoutout to Mark and Sixtus who also took advantage of Stanton’s quick drop in ISO. I sadly didn’t take advantage because I have a strict “No Yankees” rule. I’m not going to dirty my Ding Dong championship with some foul pinstripes!

Other shoutouts to Mark for continuously building on his lead, now with 70 total dongs on the year. Also to Feslenraster for taking the bold pick of Ronald Acuna Jr and having that completely pay off with four homers from him. Well done!

Here’s your perfect lineup from the week:

Elite: J.D. Martinez (4)
Everyone Else 1: Giancarlo Stanton (5)
Everyone Else 2: Ronald Acuna Jr (4)

Heath just one player away from the perfect lineup. HAWT DAMN!

Anyone not on this list is an Everyone Else. Reminder: you pick one Elite and two Everyone Else each week so choose wisely! Leave your team in the comments if you want to play this week (and feel free to leave your twitter handle as we’ll give a shoutout each week to the previous week’s winner).