The Ding Dong Challenge: Week 5

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!

Holy buckets what a week for Christian Yelich. I knew he was knocking dingers right and left but I can say for a fact that this was the closest we’ve ever had on the Ding Dong Challenge of a player knocking double digit homers in a single week. Props to all of us who played Yelich and were able to bask in his glory, but bigger props to GratefulMatt who managed to win this week without taking an Elite (yes, Yelich was not an elite last week).

Khris Davis not hitting a single moon shot this week krushed me. See what I did there?

Also shoutout Eddie Rosario for casually knocking 6 dingers last week.

Onto Week 5 Elites!

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).