Patrick Garcia

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• May 07, 2023

For 40 games in the regular season, the Pasadena City College baseball team relied on its ability to manufacture runs whether it was small or long ball. On Friday and Saturday, the Lancers ran into a Glendale pitching staff that silenced their offense and eliminated them in the SoCal Regional Playoffs with 4-2 and 4-0 victories.

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• April 29, 2023

With still a chance at a conference title on the final day of the regular season, the Pasadena City College baseball team settled for a strong second place in the South Coast Conference in completing a 3-game series sweep over Compton, 6-5, on Friday.

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• April 18, 2023

In the bottom of the third inning in the Pasadena City College baseball team's game at Los Angeles Harbor on Tuesday, centerfielder Tommy Castillo faced a 3-2 count and looked to complete an unlikely team statistical accomplishment. All eight of the Lancers starters had already drawn walks, and Castillo would have been the ninth except an errant pitch by Harbor reliever Gabriel Olguin plunked the sophomore in the shoulder resulting in a hit-by-pitch and RBI. 

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• April 02, 2023

The Pasadena City College baseball team has prided itself on fundamental play on defense, but uncharacteristically the team's infield turned bunt defense into an adventure on Saturday at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field. Rio Hondo reached base on sacrifice bunts on back-to-back Lancers errors that led to three second-inning runs and went on to defeat PCC, 7-1. The Roadrunners won 2-of-3 games to take the South Coast Conference series v. the Lancers.

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• March 25, 2023

Jakob Guardado likes to finish what he starts. The sophomore hurler pitched his second, 9-inning complete game victory in six days as the Pasadena City College baseball team shut out Mt. San Antonio, 9-0, on Saturday afternoon at Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.

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• March 04, 2023

Of all the South Coast Conference opponents, El Camino College has been the biggest thorn in the side of the Pasadena City College baseball program since Pat McGee took over as head coach back in 2015. It took eight seasons, but the Lancers finally got the best of the Warriors this season in winning their 3-game series this week, 2-games-to-1.

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• February 21, 2023

Kyle Noell continues to be a brightspot as the Lancers weekly first starter with 6.1 innings of 3-hit ball and his battery mate Matthew Delgado batted 3-for-3 with two RBI to lift the Pasadena City College baseball team over host East Los Angeles, 4-1, in the South Coast Conference opener for both squads on Tuesday.

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• February 16, 2023

Balls continue to fly out of Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field, and that's just fine with Pasadena City College baseball head coach Pat McGee--as long as it's his squad doing the slugging. The Lancers reached 10 team home runs in 10 games on Thursday as Patrick Garcia launched his fifth and Tommy Castillo slugged his first as part of his 4-for-4 day in PCC's 12-1 rout over West Los Angeles.

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• February 15, 2023

It's something you expect from the Gashouse Gorillas of Bugs Bunny cartoon fame or the '27 Yankees. What you may never see at spacious Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field are the back-to-back-to-back home runs delivered by the Pasadena City College baseball team on Tuesday. The power show highlighted a 16-5 victory over Citrus.

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• February 10, 2023

Designated hitter Patrick Garcia bombed his third home run in the last four games while backup shortstop Jack Esguerra followed making the defensive play of the game by hitting a walk-off, single in the 11th inning to give the Pasadena City College baseball team a 6-5 win over Victor Valley on Thursday. The Lancers (5-2 record) capped a home-and-home series against the Rams, winning at Victor Valley, 12-5, on Tuesday.

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• February 04, 2023

Letterman infielder Toshiki Kuriya slugged seven RBI in a 20-5 rout over LA Pierce on Friday and sophomore pitcher Jakob Guardado fired 5.1 innings of 2-hit ball to lift the Pasadena City College baseball team over LA Mission, 8-6, on Saturday in a pair of victories during the SoCal Challenge Tournament. The two contests were played at PCC's off-campus diamond--Brookside Park's Jackie Robinson Field.