Kane County Cougars infielder Marcus Chiu and Sioux Metropolis Explorers Angel Macuare gained the American Affiliation’s Rawlings July batter and pitcher of the month, the league introduced Friday.
Chiu led the league in hitting in July, posting a .376 batting common with 35 hits together with six doubles, a triple and a league-high 10 house runs. He additionally walked seven instances, stole two bases and scored 24 runs.
He could have secured the award on the ultimate day of the month, blasting two house runs with 5 RBI in Kane County’s large 9-4 win on the highway at Chicago on Thursday evening. It was his second multi-homer recreation of the month together with a three-homer evening towards the Explorers again on July third.
Chiu has bounced across the affiliation now in his third season within the league. He performed a full season with Lake Nation in 2023 earlier than enjoying with each Lake Nation and Fargo-Moorhead in 2024. He began this season again in Fargo earlier than returning to the East with Kane County.
On the pitching aspect, Macuare is placing his identify into the ring of Explorers starters having a breakout season.
The appropriate-hander joined the Explorers stacked employees originally of the month and all he did was publish the perfect ERA within the league in July with a 1.13 mark throughout 5 begins.
He allowed simply three earned runs throughout 24 innings of labor, hanging out 29 whereas strolling simply three.
His greatest begin of the month got here on July sixteenth when he went seven shutout frames on the highway in Lincoln with 5 strikeouts.
That is his first season within the American Affiliation after spending six seasons within the Houston Astros group and two within the Minnesota Twins.
Rawlings is the official baseball of the American Affiliation.
