finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1990 left houston , texas 1989 october 2 29 .125 6 second baseman cincinnati reds games played batting average hits august 17 7 december 1963 billy bates -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 milwaukee brewers billy bates right
billy bates -lrb- baseball -rrb-

william derrick bates -lrb- born december 7 , 1963 -rrb- is a former major league baseball -lrb- mlb -rrb- second baseman and pinch runner who played for the milwaukee brewers and the 1990 world series champion cincinnati reds .
in 29 career games , bates had a batting average of .125 with six hits , two runs batted in -lrb- rbi -rrb- , 11 runs , ten strikeouts , and eight stolen bases .
though defensively he played as a second baseman , the reds primarily used bates as a pinch runner .
after he scored the winning run in game 2 of the 1990 world series , bates never played in mlb again .
born in houston , bates attended the university of texas and , in his freshman season , won the 1983 college world series as a part of the texas longhorns baseball team .
for the next two seasons , bates was named to the college baseball all-america team , a team composed of the best collegiate baseball athletes in america .
drafted by milwaukee in the 4th round of the 1985 mlb draft , he rose through the brewers ' farm system and teams that he played for won multiple minor league titles .
he subsequently made his mlb debut in 1989 , after milwaukee starting second baseman became injured .
a trade sent bates to cincinnati in 1990 , where the reds used him as a pinch runner at the end of the regular season and into the postseason .
facing the oakland athletics in the world series , bates reached base on a pinch hit single against dennis eckersley and later scored the winning run in game 2 , as the reds ultimately swept the athletics , four games to none .
following the world series championship , bates spent two years in minor league baseball , one for the reds and one for the chicago cubs , and last played exhibition baseball in 1995 .
after retirement , he worked as an equipment supplier in the oil and gas industry in houston and coached his daughter 's softball team .
