Pat Corrales
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Corrales with the Nationals in 2008
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| Catcher, Manager | |||
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Born: March 20, 1941 Los Angeles, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 2, 1964, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||
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| September 21, 1973, for the San Diego Padres | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .216 | ||
| Home runs | 4 | ||
| Runs batted in | 54 | ||
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Patrick Corrales (born March 20, 1941 in Los Angeles, California), is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played from 1964 to 1973, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds and also for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres.
Corrales was a baseball and football star at Fresno High School in Fresno, California and a teammate of future major-league pitchers Jim Maloney and Dick Ellsworth. An offensive guard and linebacker, he was named lineman of the year by the Fresno Bee. After high school he signed as an amateur free agent with the Phillies in 1959.
He made his major league playing debut at age 23 on August 2, 1964 with the Phillies. He pinch-hit for pitcher John Boozer in the fifth inning, grounding out against the Los Angeles Dodgers' Larry Miller in a 6-1 Phillies loss at Connie Mack Stadium. His first career hit came the next year on June 15, 1965 in a 12-7 Phillies loss to the Milwaukee Braves at County Stadium when he singled in the eighth inning off Tony Cloninger and later scored. He had one of his best career games the next day when, in a 6-2 Phillies win over the Braves, he started at catcher and went 3-4 with his first major league home run (a two-run shot in the third inning against Denny Lemaster).
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