Sioux Metropolis Explorers infielder John Nogowski and Kane County Cougars starter Greg Mahle received the American Affiliation’s Rawlings batter and pitcher of the month for July, the league introduced Thursday.
Nogowski led the league in hitting in July by a superb margin, going 37-for-83 on the plate (.446) in 24 video games. He hit seven doubles, 4 residence runs and drove in 15 runs with a whopping 1.256 OPS.
Nogowski not solely had a 12-game hit streak at one level throughout July, he additionally had a streak of eight video games in a row with a minimum of two hits. In complete, he had 14 multi-hit video games within the month of July.
The previous main leaguer with the St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays and Pittsburgh Pirates (2020-2021) is now main the league in batting common (.348) and is seventh in complete hits with 85 on the season.
A primary-time award winner on the pitching aspect this season, Greg Mahle had fairly the month on the mound.
Mahle made 5 begins within the month of July and went an ideal 5-0 (to enhance to an ideal 7-0 on the season). He went a minimum of 5 innings in every of these begins, permitting multiple earned run simply as soon as.
The left-hander additionally racked up the strikeouts, selecting up 27 of them throughout his 5 begins. Arguably his finest begin of the month got here on July fifteenth when he went six innings in Fargo in opposition to the RedHawks permitting only one run whereas hanging out eight.
The left-hander spent a while within the majors with the Los Angeles Angels again in 2016 however previous to this season had not performed skilled baseball since 2021 within the Mexican league.
Rawlings is the official baseball of the American Affiliation.