The Ding Dong Challenge: Only Mitch Haniger did anything good last week

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.

Feslenraster has been on a roll these last two weeks! He won last week and now won again this week thanks to his boy Ronald Acuna, but even bigger thanks to Mitch Haniger who knocked the most dongs out of everyone picked with three. Well done Mitch. And Fes.

I expertly took Acuna this week and the mayor of Ding Dong city helped me out with two himself so I could’ve had a really REALLY nice week had Just Dingers Martinez lived up to his name sake and went yard just once this week. Mookie Betts also put up a donut for Sixtus this week. Man the Red Sox suck am I right you guys???????

Finally, shoutout to Mark for his candy themed picks last week, the highlight being Mark Trumbo who didn’t play at all this week. Nailed it Mark.

Here’s the perfect lineup for this week:

Elite: Javier Baez (3)
Everyone Else 1: Kendrys Morales (7)
Everyone Else 2: Christian Yelich (4)

Sweet Brady image having Morales as an everyone else this week. GAH WHY DO I NEVER PICK THE RIGHT GUYS? Probably because I’m still learning the MLB...

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).