Cisco Carlos | |||
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Pitcher | |||
Born: Monrovia, California |
September 17, 1940 |||
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MLB debut | |||
August 25, 1967, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 27, 1970, for the Washington Senators | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Win–loss record | 11-18 | ||
strikeouts | 119 | ||
earned run average | 3.72 | ||
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Francisco Manuel Carlos Guzmán (born September 17, 1940) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1967 through 1970 for the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators. LIsted at 6' 3", 205 lb., Carlos batted and threw right handed. He was born in Monrovia, California, of Mexican American descent.
Carlos was a pitcher for the University of Northern Colorado team that participated in the 1960 College World Series. He was signed by the White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1961 and spent the next six seasons in their farm system. After posting a 15–8 record in Double-A in 1966 and an 11–8 record with a 2.63 earned run average in Triple A in 1967, Carlos was called up to the Majors in late August.
That year, the White Sox were involved in a four-way American League pennant race with the Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins. The White Sox were eliminated from the race in the final days of the season, but not before Carlos won two games to keep them in contention. On September 10 he defeated the Tigers 4–0 in the second game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park, allowing four hits in six innings; the game came hours after Joe Horlen's no-hitter over the Tigers in the first game. Four days later, Carlos shut out the Cleveland Indians 4–0 in ten innings, the ChiSox winning the game on Don Buford's grand slam in the bottom of the tenth.