For those of us who love baseball stats, sometimes fun with small sample sizes is just that — a little harmless fun.

Other times, it means a free watch.

Such was the case Monday for Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, whose video-game like stat line from the first week of the season earned him National League Player of the Week honors for the week of April 6-12. Here are those stats, in relation to other qualified major league hitters from the first week of the regular season:

Gonzalez hit three home runs in the Dodgers’ 7-4 win over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday. In the process, he became the first player ever to hit five home runs in three games to begin a season.

Dating to September of last season, Gonzalez had home runs in five consecutive games, a streak that was snapped Thursday.

Gonzalez became just the third Dodger since 1914 to open the season with at least one home run in each of the club’s first three games, joining Jimmy Wynn (1974) and Carl Furillo (1955). He went a combined 10-for-13 off Padres pitchers during the three-game set at Dodger Stadium. Gonzalez collected at least one hit in all six of his games last week and had multi-hit performances in four of them.

This is his eighth career Player of the Week Award and first as a Dodger. His last weekly honor came August 6-12, 2012 as a member of the Boston Red Sox, and his last NL award was for the week of May 17-23, 2010 with San Diego.

In recognition of his National League Player of the Week Award, Adrian Gonzalez will be awarded a watch courtesy of Game Time.