{"id":8639,"date":"2019-08-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:41","slug":"madera-pitchers-close-month-on-hot-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-pitchers-close-month-on-hot-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera pitchers close month on hot streak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Liberty Hawks ace Connor Brogdon has become one of the best relievers for the Philadelphia Phillies Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.<\/p>

In his last 10 outings, dating back to Aug. 6, Brogdon has pitched 11 1\/3 innings and allowed just one run on three hits. He has 14 strikeouts in that span with a 0.79 ERA.<\/p>

Overall, with Lehigh Valley, Brogdon is 2-1 with a 3.38 ERA in 29 1\/3 innings pitched. He has 39 strikeouts against 12 walks.<\/p>

With three clubs in 2019, Brogdon is 5-2 this season in 49 games. He has allowed 22 runs in 73 innings pitched for a 2.71 ERA with 101 strikeouts.<\/p>

J.J. Santa Cruz (Liberty) as also been enjoying success. He is 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA over his last 10 outings for the August GreenJackets, the Single-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>

In the past month, Santa Cruz has seen his in-game production increase, averaging two innings an outing. Since he allowed three runs in an August 3 outing and one run in an August 8 outing, he didn\u2019t allow a run and allowed just one hit over his next nine innings through five games. He had 14 strikeouts in that span.<\/p>

With Augusta, Santa Cruz is 6-1 with a 2.44 ERA in 26 games. He has 67 strikeouts over 48 innings with just 13 walks.<\/p>

Overall, with three different teams, including Triple-A affiliate Sacramento, Santa Cruz is 6-2 with a 2.87 ERA. he has 84 strikeouts over 69 innings.<\/p>

After a rocky beginning, former Madera ace Alec Gamboa settled down for the Arizona League Dodgers, the rookie league affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>

Over his last 10 games, Gamboa was 1-1 with a 3.13 ERA in 23 innings. He has 32 strikeouts against just two walks in that span, allowing just 19 hits.<\/p>

Gamboa didn\u2019t allow a run over a five-outing stretch into August. He allowed just four hits in a 13 2\/3 inning stretch where he struck out 20 batters and didn\u2019t walk one. In his last outing, Gamboa allowed a run on two hits with four strikeouts over three innings.<\/p>

Overall, Gamboa is 1-1 with a 2.88 ERA with seven starts. He has 33 strikeouts over 25 innings pitched with just two walks.<\/p>

The Bakersfield Train Robbers completed the 2019 Pecos League season and former Madera South standout Garrett Alvarez had a hand in the team reaching the Pecos League championship game.<\/p>

Alvarez finished the season with a 6-3 record to go with a 3.31 ERA in 11 starts. He struck out 108 batters in 76 innings pitched and walked just 33 batters.<\/p>

Alvarez also had 28 plate appearances and recorded seven hits with two RBIs for a .323 batting average. He also scored two runs.<\/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":"

Former Liberty Hawks ace Connor Brogdon has become one of the best relievers for the Philadelphia Phillies Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. In his last 10 outings, dating back to Aug. 6, Brogdon has pitched 11 1\/3 innings and allowed just one run on three hits. He has 14 strikeouts in that span with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":27197,"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":[46],"class_list":["post-8639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639","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=8639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}