⏩ Brandon Crawford: Giants’ shortstop honored for charity.

Brandon Crawford’s rejuvenation season now includes a nomination for baseball’s highest off-field service award — the first of Crawford’s long career — and the All-Star shortstop was honored on the field before Wednesday’s game after being named the Giants’ nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award.

“I think it’s one of the more prestigious awards you can be nominated for,” Crawford said. “It shows not only your contributions on the baseball field, but also how you’re helping with things off the field.

“To be nominated for an award named after such a great person as Roberto Clemente, who wasn’t just a great baseball player but did so much for the community and Puerto Rico, his home country, it’s definitely a big honor and very humbling.”

The award recognizes community service and charitable endeavors, and Crawford and his wife, Jalynne, are involved in numerous organizations and efforts to help those in need, including supporting the Piscotty family’s ALS Cure Project via Crawford’s annual golf tournament; Buster and Kristen Posey’s foundation, which attempts to combat pediatric cancer; and the Giants Community Fund’s project to help restore Gilman Field in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood for youth leagues to use, including the Junior Giants.

“What I’m most proud of, and I give Jalynne credit for this, is spreading it around, because there are so many causes, especially nowadays,” Crawford said. “It seems there are so many things that need the extra help or funding. That’s what I like about what we do. We spread it out to different places who need extra help.”

The Crawfords also have made donations to Pomona’s Casa Colina Hospital, which specializes in brain injuries and where Jalynne’s father, John Dantzscher, underwent treatment after a serious traffic accident in 2000. In addition, they have teamed with former Giants outfielder Andrew McCutchen and his wife, Maria, on a special clothing line, Catch a Cure, that helps the Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.

Crawford holds annual youth baseball camps, and he ensures they emphasize kindness as well as teaching baseball fundamentals.

This is the 20th year of Roberto Clemente Day, which now will be held each Sept. 15, MLB announced. The winner of the Roberto Clemente Award will be announced during the World Series.