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Edgar Enrique Rentería [ren-ter-EE-ah] (born August 7, 1975 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball who plays for the Boston Red Sox (as of 2005). He bats and throws right-handed. August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ...
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The position of the shortstop A shortstop moves to his left, toward the center of the field, to play a ground ball Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. ...
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At the plate, Rentería has a short stroke and drives the ball with extra-base power to all fields. On the bases, he reads pitchers' moves well, and he usually gets very good jumps, which account for his good stolen base totals. He also is the kind of basestealer who does his thing when it means the most. He is a hard-nosed player, adept at breaking up double plays. Rentería has superior range in the field. He has fluid range and soft hands, and, equipped with a strong arm and good reactions, he turns the double play with ease. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson, swipes third in 1985 In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the pitcher is delivering the ball to home plate. ...
After stepping on second base, the fielder throws to first to complete a double play In baseball, a double play (denoted on statistics sheets by DP) is the act of making two outs during the same continuous playing action. ...
Career Signed by the Florida Marlins as a non-amateur free agent in 1992, Rentería made his debut in the 1996 season. He finished second behind Dodgers outfielder Todd Hollandsworth in National League Rookie of the Year balloting, after batting .309 with 68 runs scored and 16 stolen bases in 106 games played. Florida Marlins National League AAA Albuquerque Isotopes AA Carolina Mudcats A Jupiter Hammerheads Greensboro Grasshoppers Jamestown Jammers R Gulf Coast Marlins The Florida Marlins are a Major League Baseball team based in Miami, Florida, USA. They are in the Eastern Division of the National League. ...
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Rentería is well remembered for his 11th inning two-out RBI single in Game Seven of the 1997 World Series to give Florida a 3-2 triumph over the Cleveland Indians. He was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals before the 1998 season. In baseball statistics, a run batted in (RBI) is given to a batter for each run scored as the result of a batters plate appearance. ...
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An amazing transformation has taken place in Rentería's game over the past three seasons. He's always been one of the best defensive players in either league, but now he has developed into a consistent hitter and one of the best all-around shortstops in the majors. In 2003, he became the first National League shortstop in 18 years to compile 100 RBIs in a season. He fell just six hits short of being the first NL shortstop in more than 90 years to have 200 hits and 100 RBIs in the same season. His .330 batting average ranked fourth in the league and he also stole 34 bases. This year in baseball: 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Events January-June April 4 - Sammy Sosa hits his 500th career home run off Cincinnati Reds pitcher Scott Sullivan in the seventh inning at Great American Ball Park, becoming only the 18th player in Major League Baseball history to...
In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when he safely reaches first base after batting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielders choice. ...
In a nine-season career, up to the end of the 2004 season, Rentería was a .289 hitter with 83 home runs and 565 RBIs in 1296 games. This year in baseball: 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Events January-June February 15: Alex Rodriguez is traded to the New York Yankees. ...
In baseball, a home run is a base hit in which the batter is able to circle all the bases, ending at home plate and scoring a run, with no errors on the play that result in the batter achieving extra bases. ...
Since joining the Boston Red Sox at the start of the 2005 campaign, Rentería has not shown his base-stealing ability of old, having stolen only two bases as of May 8th, 2005 - 28 games into his Red Sox career. He has batted .239 with two home runs and ten RBIs in that time for the defending World Series champions. After being jeered by Sox fans and switching numbers from 16 to 3, Renteria has gone on a hitting streak hitting in almost every game since May 22 and is now at .278 with 4 home runs and 21 RBIs.
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Facts - A free agent at the end of the 2004 season, Rentería was signed by the Boston Red Sox. His team switch is historic. According to Elias Sports Bureau, he is the fourth player in the last 40 years to play in the World Series and join the team he played against the following season. The others are pitcher Don Gullett, who went from the 1976 Cincinnati Reds to the Yankees in 1977; infielder/outfielder Gary Thomasson, who went from the 1978 Yankees to the Dodgers in 1979; and pitcher Tommy John, who went from the '78 Dodgers to the Yankees the following year. Rentería's switch is particularly notable as, not only did he join the team which defeated his Cardinals in the 2004 World Series, but he was himself the final out of that series.
- Rentería also is the only major league player to win a World Series with a walk-off hit (1997 with Florida) and make the last out in a World Series (2004 with St. Louis).
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An infielder is a baseball player who plays on the infield, the dirt portion of a baseball diamond between first base and third base. ...
An outfielder moves in to catch a fly ball Outfielder is a collective term including left fielder, center fielder, and right fielder, the three positions in baseball farthest from the batter. ...
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This is a list of baseball players from Colombia who have played in Major League Baseball: 1902 Luis Castro 1974 Orlando Ramírez 1983 Jackie Gutiérrez 1996 Edgar Rentería 1997 Orlando Cabrera 1998 Jolbert Cabrera 1999 Yamid Haad Categories: Baseball players | Lists of sportspersons ...
External links - Edgar Rentería at:
- Baseball Library (biography) (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Renteria_Edgar.stm)
- Baseball Reference (statistics and analysis) (http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/renteed01.shtml)
- ESPN (profile and daily updates) (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=5602)
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