Jason Heyward was announced as the winner of the Gold Glove award for right field in the National League on Tuesday night. He was running against Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds and Andre Either of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Heyward had a fantastic year in the outfield making many spectacular running and diving catches that saved runs, and games in some situations. One such catch came in the Wild Card game against the St. Louis Cardinals, when he leaped at the wall to bring back a home run off the bat of Cardinals' catcher Yadier Molina.
He also had eleven outfield assists, in which he threw out a runner who was trying to advance on a fly ball out. He only made five errors all year in the 156 games he played in. That equals out to a 98% fielding percentage. He is the first Brave to win a Gold Glove since 2007, when two former Braves won, Andruw Jones and Jeff Francoeur.
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