page_title: Luis Tiant
section_title: Post-playing days
hierarchical_section_title: Luis Tiant / Post-playing days
caption_attribution_description: English: NORFOLK, Va. (June 13, 2007) – L.C. Greenwood, a former Pittsburgh Steeler, and Luis Tiant, a former Boston Red Sox player, stand on the brow of USS Albany (SSN 753) with Chief of the Boat, Michael Nichols, before going below decks to tour Albany. The tour was part of Summerfest 2007, hosted by Naval Station Norfolk's Morale Welfare and Recreation. U.S. Navy photo by
context_page_description: Luis Clemente Tiant Vega is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He pitched in MLB for 19 years, primarily for the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox.
  Tiant compiled a 229–172 record with 2416 strikeouts, a 3.30 ERA, 187 complete games, and 49 shutouts in ​3486 ¹⁄₃ innings. He was an All-Star for three seasons and 20-game winner for four seasons. He was the American League ERA leader in 1968 and 1972. He also was the AL leader in strikeouts for 9-innings in 1967 and the AL leader in shutouts in 1966, 1968, and 1974.
  Tiant was considered for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum via voting of the Baseball Writers' Association of America from 1988 to 2002, and by era committees in 2011, 2014, and 2017, falling short of the required votes each time. He was inducted to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 1997, the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in 2002, the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2012.
context_section_description: Tiant was a minor league pitching coach in the Los Angeles Dodgers' farm system from 1992 to 1995, and in the Chicago White Sox' farm system in 1997. During the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was the pitching coach for the Nicaraguan team.
  Tiant served as the head coach for the baseball team at the Savannah College of Art and Design, an NCAA Division III program, from 1998 to 2001, where he posted a record of 55–97 for a .366 winning percentage.
  In 2002, Tiant was the pitching coach for Boston's Class A Short Season affiliate, the Lowell Spinners, and he has continued to serve as a special assignment instructor for Boston.
  Tiant, along with former batterymate Carlton Fisk, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the decisive Game 6 of the 2013 World Series at Fenway Park.
caption: Tiant aboard the USS Albany, June 2007
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