finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2001 right beaumont , texas 1991 october 4 46 -- 28 4.73 358 pitcher texas rangers win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts june 8 18 november 1965 mark petkovsek
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mark petkovsek

mark joseph petkovsek -lrb- born november 18 , 1965 in beaumont , texas -rrb- is a former major league baseball pitcher .
he played for the texas rangers -lrb- 1991 and 2001 -rrb- , pittsburgh pirates -lrb- 1993 -rrb- , st. louis cardinals -lrb- 1995 -- 98 -rrb- and anaheim angels -lrb- 1999 -- 2000 -rrb- .
he attended the university of texas , where he threw a seven-inning no-hitter in march 1987 .
petkovsek was a first-round pick of the rangers later that year , and in 1991 , he made his major-league debut with the club , pitching 4 and taking the loss against the new york yankees .
the rangers granted him his free agency following the year , and he signed with pittsburgh for 1992 .
he spent the year at aaa buffalo , where he co-aced for the club with tim wakefield .
after petkovsek appeared in 23 games for pittsburgh in ' 93 , the pirates let petkovsek walk , and the right-hander signed with the astros for 1994 .
they assigned him to aaa tucson out of spring training , and he spent the entire year there .
on may 16 , 1994 , petkovsek threw the first nine-inning no-hitter in tucson franchise history , beating the colorado springs sky sox 5 -- 0 in his only complete game of the year .
for his effort , petkovsek was named pcl pitcher of the week .
as had the rangers and pirates before them , the astros granted petkovsek his free agency after the 1994 season , and he found a home in the cardinals organization , pitching at both aaa louisville and for the major league redbirds in 1995 .
his 21 major league starts that year were a career high .
he helped the cardinals win the 1996 national league central division , winning 11 times against only two defeats as a swingman .
the 11 wins he had for st. louis were a career high , regardless of professional level .
