Ken Brett
| Ken Brett | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: September 18, 1948 Brooklyn, New York |
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Died: November 18, 2003 (aged 55) Spokane, Washington |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 27, 1967, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 3, 1981, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 83–85 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.93 | ||
| Strikeouts | 807 | ||
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Kenneth Alven "Ken" Brett (September 18, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was a Major League Baseball pitcher and the second of four Brett brothers who played professional baseball, the most notable being the youngest, George Brett. Ken played for 10 teams in his 14-year MLB career.
Born in Brooklyn, Ken Brett grew up in southern California in El Segundo, a suburb of Los Angeles just south of the airport.
At age 17, he was the fourth overall pick in the 1966 Major League Baseball Draft, selected by the Boston Red Sox as a pitcher; the 19 other MLB teams coveted him as a sweet-swinging center fielder. Fifteen months later, Brett was called up to the major leagues from Single-A ball, he participated in the final week of a heated American League pennant race in September 1967. Boston won the league title by defeating the Minnesota Twins on the final day of the season, finishing a single game ahead of both Detroit and Minnesota, and three games ahead of Chicago. Brett was not expected to be on the post-season (World Series) roster to face the St. Louis Cardinals, but was added as an emergency replacement for an injured Sparky Lyle, a transaction requiring the commissioner's approval.
Days later on October 8, Brett became the youngest pitcher ever in the World Series, appearing in relief in Game 4. He pitched a scoreless eighth inning, yielding a walk. In Game 7, he entered the game with the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning and induced Tim McCarver to ground out to the first baseman to end the inning. At just 19 years (& three weeks), he gave up no hits in 1 1⁄3 scoreless innings in his two appearances.
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