Vote for Best Performance in MLB Awards

Every time you watch a baseball game, there’s a chance to witness history.

And with 30 teams in the Major Leagues and 162 games in the regular season, that means just about every day of every week has some riveting theater to behold between the baselines.

The best players in the world often raise the level of their excellence to heights that maybe they didn’t even expect to reach, and baseball fans are the biggest beneficiaries of unforgettable performances that become indelible memories.

And now it’s time to honor them.

• Vote for your favorites in the Esurance MLB Awards

It was almost impossible to come up with only five candidates for the 2016 Esurance MLB Award for Best Performance, which honors the best single-game efforts by Major Leaguers during the season, but this is one quintessential quintet. This was “have a day” and then some by five players at the absolute top of their game.

Mookie Betts of the Red Sox and Kris Bryant of the Cubs are MVP front-runners in both leagues, and both are represented here for their best games at the plate. Jon Gray of the Rockies is an emerging young pitcher who had a start for the ages.

And Max Scherzer of the Nationals and Noah Syndergaard of the Mets? These two National League East rival starters seem to do amazing stuff like this all the time.

The Esurance MLB Awards annually honor Major League Baseball’s greatest achievements as part of an industry-wide balloting process that includes five groups, each of which accounts for 20 percent of the overall vote: media, front-office personnel, retired MLB players, fans at MLB.com and Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) voters.

The MLB Awards are an all-inclusive program, encompassing the top players and performances from both the American and National Leagues from Opening Day through the end of the postseason.

Individual awards will go to …

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