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Luis Clemente (Vega) Tiant
Marianao, Cuba
5-10, 185 pounds
Career Pitching Statistics
YEAR TEAM G W L SO ERA IP CG BB Pct. 1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982Clev
Clev
Clev
Clev
Clev
Clev
Minn
Bos
Bos
Bos
Bos
Bos
Bos
Bos
Bos
NYY
NYY
Pitt.
Cali.19
41
46
33
34
38
18
21
43
35
38
35
38
32
32
30
25
9
610
11
12
12
21
9
7
1
15
20
22
18
21
12
13
13
8
2
24
11
11
9
9
20
3
7
6
13
13
14
12
8
8
8
9
5
2105
152
145
219
264
156
50
59
123
206
176
142
131
124
114
104
84
32
302.83
3.53
2.79
2.74
1.68
3.71
3.40
4.85
1.91
3.34
2.92
4.02
3.06
4.53
3.31
3.91
4.89
3.92
5.76127.0
196.3
155.0
213.7
258.3
249.7
92.7
72.3
179.0
272.0
311.3
260.0
279.0
188.7
212.3
195.7
136.3
57.3
29.79
10
7
9
19
9
2
1
12
23
25
18
19
3
12
5
3
1
047
66
50
67
73
129
41
32
65
78
82
72
64
51
57
53
50
19
8.714
.500
.522
.571
.700
.310
.700
.125
.714
.606
.629
.563
.636
.600
.616
.616
.471
.286
.50019 Year-Total G
573W
229L
172SO
2416ERA
3.30IP
3486.1CG
187BB
1104.Pct
.571* G=Games, W=Wins, L=Loss, ERA= Earn Run Average, IP=Innings Pitched, CG= Complete games, BB= Bases on balls (walks), SO= Strike outs, Pct=Winning Percentage.
Career Highlights
- Won 20 or more games four times.
- Struck out 2,416 batters during his 19 year career.
- Was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997
- Led the American League in shutouts three times (1966, 68, 74).
- Won two games in the 1975 World Series, one of the greatest World Series in the history of baseball, against the Big Red Machine, one of the greatest teams in history. Tiant shutout the Reds in one game and started all three games won by the underdog Red Sox in that memorable Fall Classic.
- Is tied for the all-time record for most strikeouts in two consecutive games (32 in 1968) with Nolan Ryan (1974), Dwight Gooden (1984) and Randy Johnson (1997).
- Holds the all-time record for lowest opponents' batting average in a single season (.168 in 1968).
- Had 49 career shutouts, which rank him in a tie for 21st on the all-time shutout list. Of the 22 pitchers in the history of baseball that have thrown as many or more shutouts, 20 are in the Hall of Fame. The only two that are not in are Don Sutton and Bert Blyleven. Sutton received 346 of 355 needed votes in the 1997 voting and appears destined for election. There are at least 14 pitchers in the Hall of Fame with fewer career shutouts than Tiant.
- Won 10 or more games 13 times.
- Hurled 187 complete games.
- Pitched in three All-Star Games ('68, '74 and '76) and started the 1968 All-Star Game.
- Defeated Whitey Ford in his major league debut at Yankee Stadium in 1964 by shutting out the four-time defending American League champion Yankees 3-0, while striking out 11 and scattering four hits.
- Won Comeback Player of the Year Award in 1972.
- Had six seasons with sub-3.00 ERA.
- Struck out 19 Minnesota Twins in a 10-inning game in 1968.
- His 1.68 ERA in 1968 was the lowest in the American League since Walter Johnson's 1.49 in 1919.
- His 1.91 ERA in 1972 was the first sub-2.00 ERA for a Boston Red Sox pitcher since Carl Mays in 1917. Only Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez has been able to achieve a sub-2.00 ERA at Fenway since Tiant did it.
- Second all-time to Nolan Ryan, for fewest hits allowed per-game in one season (5.3 hits per game in 1968).
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