A tremendous debut series earned Adam Duvall American League Player of the Week honors.

“Duvie’s got about 1,800 hits already,” Alex Verdugo joked after Sunday’s win.

“We all knew that he was gonna love Fenway Park,” Kiké Hernández said.

In his first three regular-season games with the Red Sox, Duvall went 8-for-14 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs (in the same game), six runs scored, and eight RBI. He leads or ties for the MLB lead in runs, doubles, RBI, and total bases (19). He had at least one hit, run, and RBI in each game.

On Saturday evening, Duvall needed a single to hit for the cycle, but used his last at-bat to hit a walk-off two-run homer to the Green Monster, instead, capping a stunning comeback. At one point, the Red Sox trailed the Baltimore Orioles by six runs; the largest deficit they overcame in 2022 was five.

“It seems like he always came up with a big hit throughout the series,” Cora said after the Red Sox won their opening set for the first time since 2018. “The quality of the at-bats are good, and this is a guy that has power, but at the same time, he’ll move the ball forward, he’ll put it in play.”

The 34-year-old outfielder got off to a slow start in spring training, but after he collected his first hit on March 10, he didn’t stop. He finished Grapefruit League play with 13 hits, five doubles, four home runs, eight runs scored, and eight RBI.

“I feel like he got hot a couple of weeks ago in spring training and it hasn’t stopped,” Hernández said. “He just drives in runs, that’s what he does.”

According to the club’s media relations, Duvall is the first player in franchise history with six extra-base hits in their first three games, and joins Brock Holt (2016), Ted Williams (1942), and Bobby Doerr (1941) as the only Red Sox players with eight runs batted in over the first three games of a season.

Duvall was also a driving force in the team making a historic start to the season; this is the first time a Red Sox team scored nine or more runs in each of their first three games. The 1978 Milwaukee Brewers and 1976 Cincinnati Reds are the only other clubs to achieve the feat. It’s also the first time the Red Sox scored nine or more runs in three straight games since July 2019.

This is Duvall’s tenth year in the majors, but his first on an American League team. Prior to Opening Day, he’d only played four games at Fenway in his career.

The Red Sox open up a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Fenway Park at 7:10 PM on Monday. Duvall will bat fifth and play centerfield.