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Pedro Jaime Martinez #45
Boston Red Sox: Pitcher
HT: 5'11"
WT: 180 Bats: Right Throws: Right
Born: October 25, 1971 Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic
College: Ohio Dominican
Teams: Boston Red
Sox (1998-present), Montreal Expos (1994-97), Los Angeles Dodgers (1992-93)
World Series Championships: None
Did You Know?
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Pedro won the AL Triple Crown in 1999 when he
led the league in Wins, ERA, and K's.
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Pedro has won the Cy Young Award three times
(1997, 1999, 2000). The award in 1997 came with the Expos and the
other two with the Red Sox, putting him on the short list of winning the
award in both leagues, the others being Randy Johnson
and Gaylord
Perry.
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Pedro has led the AL in ERA five times
(1997, 1999, 2000, 2002-03) and is the Active leader among starting pitchers with a
2.58 career ERA.
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Pedro is also the Active leader in winning
percentage (.712).
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Can Pedro lay one down if need be? Yes sir!
He led the NL in 1996 with 16 sacrifices.
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Another impressive feat in the NL for Pedro was throwing
nine innings of perfect baseball but losing it in the 10th, keeping it out of
perfect game status.
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Pedro struck out 17 Yankees in a single game,
which is an all-time record for most Yankee K's in a game.
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While learning everything he could grasp from
his older brother Ramon Martinez, Pedro had the opportunity to pitch against
him on one occasion and be his teammate twice in the major leagues.
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