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Mike Torrez
Michael Augustine Torrez (born August 28 1946 in Topeka, Kansas) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.
Career
Torrez had an 18-year career from 1967 to 1984. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos and New York Mets, all of the National League, and Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A's, New York Yankees, and Boston Red Sox, all of the American League.Torrez won 2 games in the 1977 World Series for the World Champion Yankees and won 15 or more games in 6 consecutive seasons. After the Yankees 1977 championship season, he signed as a free agent with Boston. His 16-win season was forgotten with 1 pitch when he gave up a 3-run home run to light-hitting Yankee shortstop, Bucky Dent, in the late innings of the division-deciding 163rd game.
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