American Affiliation of Skilled Baseball

Sioux Falls Canaries infielder Mike Hart and Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks starter Colten Davis gained the American Affiliation’s Rawlings Batter and Pitcher of the Month for August, the league introduced Friday.

Hart was an RBI machine for a Canaries staff that stormed their means from fifth within the west to a playoff spot. The slugger hit .333 (29-for-87) together with a league-high 11 house runs and 24 runs batted in.

Hart is now hitting just below .300 on the season at .296 whereas he’s 4th within the league with 24 house runs. He’s additionally pushed in 66 runs on the season whereas amassing 82 hits in whole in 82 video games.

Hart is in his sixth season of American Affiliation baseball, all with Sioux Falls different than simply 5 video games with Lincoln in 2018. This has been arguably his greatest statistical season within the league, with an OPS properly over 1.000 as properly.

On the pitching facet, Davis went an ideal 4-0 this month in 5 begins, pitching 31 whole innings and permitting simply six earned runs (1.74 ERA).

The proper-hander struck out 22 batters in these 31 innings, strolling simply 12. He went seven innings in three begins this month, together with his spotlight being a seven-inning, eight strikeouts efficiency on the street in Sioux metropolis.

Davis is in his first 12 months within the league after ending his faculty ball at Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He owns an ideal 7-0 file on the season with a 2.15 ERA in 46 whole innings pitched.

Rawlings is the official baseball of the American Affiliation.