{"id":8055,"date":"2019-07-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8055"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:43","slug":"former-ace-in-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/former-ace-in-triple-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ace in Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8055\" class=\"elementor elementor-8055\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4549cc77 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4549cc77\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6463a6a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6463a6a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Former Liberty pitcher Connor Brogdon has steadily climed the ladder through the Philadelphia Phillies organization.<\/p><p>He began the year in Single-A Clearwater and recorded a 2-0 record with a 1.80 ERA in 10 games with 20 innings pitched and 23 strikeouts while holding batters to a .164 batting average.<\/p><p>On May 9, he got the call to head to Double-A Reading for the Fightin Phils in the Eastern League.<\/p><p>In 15 appearances, he recorded a 1-1 record with a 2.66 ERA. He had two saves in 23 2\/3 innings with 39 strikeouts against just seven alks. He held batters to a .150 batting average.<\/p><p>On June 29, Brogdon got another call and this time to Triple-A Lehigh Valley in the International League.<\/p><p>He has had a little trouble in the advanced league with a 6.23 ERA through four games, but he has eight strikeouts in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p><p>In all, Brogdon is 3-1 with a 2.63 ERA. He has 70 strikeouts in 48 innings pitched with just 15 walks and batters are hitting just .183 against him.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, in the San Francisco Giants organization, J.J. Santa Cruz (Liberty) has had his ups and downs. He started the season with San Jose in Single-A advanced. He had a 3.32 ERA in 10 games wtih 14 strikeouts in 19 innings pitched.<\/p><p>He received a call-up to Triple-A Sacramento on May 5. He appeared in two games for the River Cats giving up two runs in two innings with three walks and three strikeouts.<\/p><p>He was sent down to Single-A Full season Augusta on May 8. In 13 games, including a nine-day stint on the injured list, Santa Cruz has a 3.28 ERA with a 3-1 record in 13 games. He has 38 strikeouts in 24 2\/3 innings.<\/p><p>Recent Los Angeles Dodgers draftee Alec Gamboa (Madera) stayed in Camelback Ranch in Arizona and is playing for the Dodgers rookie league team. In three games, he has a pitched 2 2\/3 innings with two earned runs and three strikeouts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liberty pitcher Connor Brogdon has steadily climed the ladder through the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He began the year in Single-A Clearwater and recorded a 2-0 record with a 1.80 ERA in 10 games with 20 innings pitched and 23 strikeouts while holding batters to a .164 batting average. On May 9, he got the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}