Ramiro Mendoza
| Ramiro Mendoza | |||
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Born: June 15, 1972 Los Santos, Panama |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 25, 1996, for the New York Yankees | |||
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| September 1, 2005, for the New York Yankees | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 59–40 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.30 | ||
| Strikeouts | 463 | ||
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Ramiro Mendoza (born June 15, 1972), nicknamed "El Brujo" (The Witch Doctor), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Mendoza played with the New York Yankees (1996–2002, 2005) and Boston Red Sox (2003–04). He batted and threw right-handed. Although Mendoza made 62 starts in his major league career, he was primarily known as a middle relief pitcher. He threw a sinker along with a slider, a four-seam fastball and a changeup. In Mendoza's ten seasons in the Major Leagues he was a part of five World Series champion teams.
In a nine-year career, Mendoza compiled a 59–40 record with 463 strikeouts and a 4.30 earned run average in 797 innings pitched. Mendoza was the only player in the last 75 years to win a World Series ring with both the New York Yankees (1996, 1998–2000) and Boston Red Sox (2004) before Johnny Damon and Eric Hinske joined that club in 2009.
Mendoza made his major league debut in 1996, going 4-5 with a 6.79 ERA in his rookie season. He did not appear on the postseason roster. In 1997, Mendoza went 8-6 with a 4.24 ERA, while starting 15 games, as both a starter and a reliever. He also appeared in his first two postseason games in 1997, going 1-1 with an ERA of 2.45 while throwing 133 and 2/3 innings, a sharp increase from the 53 he pitched in 1996.
1998 was statistically Mendoza's best season, as he went 10-2 with an ERA of 3.25, both career bests. In the postseason, he pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings against the Cleveland Indians over two games of the American League Championship Series. In the 1998 World Series against the San Diego Padres, Mendoza pitched one inning of two hit, one run, one strikeout ball in Game 3. He earned his second World Series ring when the Yankees swept the Padres.
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