finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1991 both 6 january 2011 baltimore , maryland la romana , dominican republic 1991 october 3 0 -- 0 4.50 1 pitcher baltimore orioles win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts september 7 3 march 1966 francisco de la rosa
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francisco de la rosa

francisco de la rosa jiménez -lrb- march 3 , 1966 -- january 6 , 2011 -rrb- was a professional baseball pitcher .
he made two appearances in major league baseball with the baltimore orioles during the 1991 season .
listed at 5 ' 11 '' , 185 lbs. , he threw right-handed .
born in la romana , dominican republic , he developed as a ballplayer around the san pedro de macoris area , a hotbed of future major league talent at the time .
he signed with toronto blue jays scout epy guerrero in 1985 , and spent one season with the gcl blue jays , in which he went 0 -- 1 with a 5.52 earned run average in 16 relief appearances , before being released by toronto .
de la rosa joined the baltimore orioles organization in 1988 , and went 3 -- 4 with a 4.61 era for the hagerstown suns of the carolina league .
though he had been used primarily as a reliever , he was converted to a starter with hagerstown in 1990 , now of the double a eastern league .
in that role , de la rosa was 9 -- 5 with a 2.06 era .
after compiling a 4 -- 1 record with a 2.67 era for the triple a rochester red wings in 1991 , de la rosa received a september call-up to the orioles , making his major league debut on september 7 against the kansas city royals .
inheriting a bases loaded , two out situation , he retired bill pecota on a fly ball to left to end the eighth inning .
he then loaded the bases himself in the ninth before escaping the inning without giving up a run .
de la rosa 's next appearance came a month later against the new york yankees .
entering the game with the yankees having already scored five runs in the third inning , de la rosa recorded the final two outs of the inning without giving up another run .
he pitched a perfect fourth before the yankees got to him for three runs in the fifth .
prior to the start of the 1992 season , the orioles sent de la rosa to the yankees to complete an earlier deal in which they acquired alan mills for a player to be named later .
in two seasons with the yankees ' triple a affiliate , the columbus clippers , de la rosa was 7 -- 2 with a 4.93 era .
de la rosa pitched for the st. louis cardinals ' triple-a affiliate , the louisville redbirds in 1995 , and the thunder bay whiskey jacks of the independent northern league in 1996 .
he also played for a long time with the estrellas orientales of the dominican winter baseball league , earning the nickname `` tiger tamer '' for his performance against the licey tigers .
de la rosa continued to pitch in independent leagues in new york and philadelphia before moving to baltimore , maryland , where he lived with his brothers until his death at 44 .
