Phil Dale

Phillip Dale (born 8 August 1962 in Melbourne), was an Australian minor league baseball player and is currently a coach with the Australia national baseball team.

Dale has had a long and illustrious baseball career and was the first Australian to get a 4-year baseball scholarship to an American university (Georgia Southern University). He also was a pitcher for the Australian national team, spent 4 seasons in the minor leagues, reaching AA. Dale then became one of the best players in the Australian Baseball League, setting several records. After his playing career, he went into scouting and coaching, including being the pitching coach for a silver medal Athens 2004 Olympics Australian Olympic baseball team.

Dale pitched for Australia in the 1982 Amateur World Series (Baseball World Cup). After which, he travelled to the US and pitched for Georgia Southern University, the first Australian baseball player to win a 4-year scholarship to a USA college. He was undrafted but signed a contract with the Cincinnati Reds and debuted in 1985 for the GCL Reds, going a very impressive 2–2 with 7 saves and a 0.89 ERA in 15 games for the team. He tied John Tanner for the Gulf Coast League lead in saves and made the GCL All-Star team that year. He was then promoted to the Tampa Tarpons and was 2–1 with a 2.20 ERA.

Phil was with Tampa for all of 1986, going a reasonable 5–4 with 3 saves and a 2.80 ERA. In '87, Dale was 4–4 with 12 saves for the Cedar Rapids Reds, posting a 2.95 ERA. He was released at the end of the 1988 season, when he had a 4–10 and a 4.30 ERA. Dale then moved on to work as a minor league coach in the Reds and Atlanta Braves chain following the end of his playing career in the USA.

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