Richie Zisk
| Richie Zisk | |||
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| Outfielder / Designated hitter | |||
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Born: February 6, 1949 Brooklyn, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 8, 1971, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 21, 1983, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .287 | ||
| Home runs | 207 | ||
| Runs batted in | 792 | ||
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Richard Walter Zisk (born February 6, 1949) is a retired Major League Baseball player currently in charge of pro scouting in Florida for the Chicago Cubs.
Zisk was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Seton Hall University in the third round of the 1967 Major League Baseball draft, and made his major league debut on September 8, 1971 replacing Roberto Clemente in right field in the eighth inning of Pittsburgh's 10-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs, and got a single in his first major league at-bat. Zisk also made seventeen appearances with the 1972 Pirates, however, he was not on either team's post-season roster.
In Zisk's rookie season, 1973, he batted .324 with ten home runs. On June 9, 1974, he hit for the cycle in a 14-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park. For the season, he led the Pirates with 100 runs batted in while also clubbing seventeen home runs. He made his only post-season appearances with the 1974 and 1975 Pirates. While batting an impressive .400 in the post-season, Zisk only scored one run and had no RBIs as the Pirates lost in 5 games to the Dodgers 1974 NLCS were swept by the Reds in 1975 Following the 1976 season, the Pirates traded Zisk along with Silvio Martinez to the Chicago White Sox for Terry Forster and Rich Gossage.
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