Alvarez is still shutting them down

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Relief pitcher Juan Alvarez, who has steadily progressed through the Angel system, was the only Edmonton Trapper selected to the Pacific Coast League team for the triple-A all-star game. It


was hardly a bolt from the blue. Alvarez, a 26-year-old left-hander, did not give up a run in his first 8 2/3 innings this season. For the season, Alvarez is 3-0 with a 1.59 earned-run


average in 28 games through Friday. Alvarez went from double-A Erie to Edmonton to the Angels last season. He was 0-1 with a 3.00 ERA in eight games after his Sept. 1 call-up. The triple-A


all-star game will be July 12 in Rochester, N.Y. Right-handed pitcher Mario Mendoza Jr. was promoted from Class-A Cedar Rapids to Class-A Lake Elsinore, managed by his father, Mario Mendoza


Sr. Mendoza, a 46th-round pick in the 1999 draft, was 6-6 with a 4.30 ERA in 14 starts with Cedar Rapids. He had 67 strikeouts and 19 walks in 98 1/3 innings. Mendoza went 6 1/3 innings,


giving up three earned runs, in his first start Thursday, but didn’t get a decision. Lake Elsinore scored two runs to defeat San Jose, 7-5, in the 11th. Lake Elsinore outfielder Elpidio


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