Dave Gray
Dave Gray | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: Ogden, Utah | January 7, 1943|
Died: July 29, 2020 South Ogden, Utah | (aged 77)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
June 14, 1964, for the Boston Red Sox | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 14, 1964, for the Boston Red Sox | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 0-0 |
Earned run average | 9.00 |
Strikeouts | 17 |
Teams | |
David Alexander Gray (January 7, 1943 – July 29, 2020) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1964 season. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) and 190 lb (86 kg), he batted and threw right-handed.
Gray played baseball at Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah, and, according to Gray, did not lose any games as a pitcher.[1]
Gray was signed by the Red Sox out of the Weber State University. After spending his first year in professional baseball, 1963, at the minor league level, Gray was kept on Boston's Major League roster for the entire 1964 campaign to keep him from being drafted by other MLB teams under the terms of the Bonus Rule then in force. In nine Major League appearances, Gray posted a 9.00 ERA with 17 strikeouts and 20 bases on balls in 13 innings of work, allowing 18 hits. He had one starting pitcher assignment and six games finished, and did not register a decision.
Gray was one of only a few dozen major leaguers to have a perfect lifetime 1.000 batting average. On June 20, 1964, he singled off Milt Pappas of the Baltimore Orioles in the seventh inning of the game at Memorial Stadium. According Gray, Orioles catcher Andy Etchebarren told him before the pitch that Pappas would be throwing a fastball.[1] It was Gray's only Major League at bat.
By the time he retired after the 1970 minor league season, Gray said he had lost all of his velocity.[1]
Gray died on July 29, 2020, in South Ogden, Utah.
References
- ^ a b c "Major league memory". Lakeside Review. 16 August 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
Sources
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference
- Retrosheet
- 1943 births
- 2020 deaths
- Baseball players from Utah
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- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Pittsfield Red Sox players
- Salt Lake City Bees players
- Sportspeople from Ogden, Utah
- Waterloo Hawks (baseball) players
- Weber State Wildcats baseball players
- Winston-Salem Red Sox players
- American baseball pitcher, 1940s births stubs