Tom Browning
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Born: April 28, 1960 Casper, Wyoming |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 9, 1984, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
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| May 19, 1995, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 123–90 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.94 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,000 | ||
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Thomas Leo Browning (born April 28, 1960) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 12-year baseball career, he pitched for the Cincinnati Reds (1984–1994) and the Kansas City Royals (1995). He is also co-author of Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout.
Browning pitched the twelfth perfect game in baseball history on September 16, 1988 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also won the World Series with the Reds in 1990.
Browning played college baseball at LeMoyne College in Syracuse from 1979 to 1981.
Browning was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth round of the 1982 June draft out of Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens. That year he led the Pioneer League in strikeouts and innings pitched, and after learning a screwball during the Fall Instruction League, went 8–1 with 101 strikeouts in 78 2⁄3 innings pitched for Class-A Tampa in 1983. He eventually earned a midseason promotion to Class-AA Waterbury and struck out 101 batters in 117 1⁄3 innings pitched.
Browning began the 1984 season with Class-AAA Wichita, where he went 12–10 with a league-high 160 strikeouts. On July 31 of that year, he threw a seven-inning no-hitter against Iowa and later earned a September call-up to play for Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds. In his major-league debut, Browning beat Orel Hershiser and the Los Angeles Dodgers while pitching 8 1⁄3 innings and giving up just one run. He finished the year 1–0 with a 1.54 ERA to retain his spot on the major-league club the following season.
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