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Eric Serge Gagne (born January 7, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. His surname is sometimes written as "Gagné". Eric Gagné File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Eric Gagné File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A relief pitcher warms up in the bullpen as the game goes on A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness or fatigue. ...
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From a French-Canadian family, Gagné grew up playing ice hockey in his small hometown of Mascouche, located not far from Montreal. A fan of the Montreal Expos, he started playing baseball as well as hockey and as a teenager was a brilliant pitcher in high school, then a star with Canada's Junior World Championship teams. French Canadian (or Franco-Canadian) is a term that refers to francophone inhabitants of Canada. ...
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Gagné was a 30th-round draft choice of the Chicago White Sox in 1994, but the following year he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent. Gagné, who could not speak English, went to study at Seminole Junior College in Seminole, Oklahoma. Remarkably, he taught himself English while a student and pitched for the college's "Trojans" ball team. One way he learned English was by watching the sitcom Who's the Boss? He then went on to pitch in the minor leagues but missed the entire 1997 season due to elbow surgery. He joined the Los Angeles Dodgers team for a part of the 1999 season; in his first year in the major leagues, he appeared in only five games as a starting pitcher. Over his first three seasons he met with only mediocre success, winning 11 games while losing 14. At the start of the 2002 season, he was converted from a starting pitcher to a relief pitcher, and after a short stint in the minor leagues in Las Vegas, he was recalled to the Dodgers and soon became the National League's leading reliever, earning 52 saves for the season. Chicago White Sox American League AAA Charlotte Knights AA Birmingham Barons A Winston-Salem Warthogs Kannapolis Intimidators R Bristol White Sox Great Falls White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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A relief pitcher warms up in the bullpen as the game goes on A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness or fatigue. ...
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To save in a sport means to stop a goal or to maintain the lead. ...
In 2003, as a closer, Gagné was called upon 55 times to save a baseball game and converted every one of them en route to becoming both the only pitcher to record 50 saves in more than one season and also the fastest pitcher to ever reach the 100-save plateau. His 55 saves in 2003 also equaled the National League record set the previous season by John Smoltz. Between August 26, 2002 and July 5, 2004, he saved 84 consecutive games – another major league record. What is also so exceptional about him as a power pitcher is that 55 percent of the batters he retired during the 2003 season came by strikeout. In baseball, a closer is a relief pitcher who specializes in closing games, i. ...
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John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is a Major League Baseball player. ...
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ...
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In baseball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by K or SO) occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. ...
Gagné finished the 2003 season with an 1.20 earned run average and had 137 strikeouts and 20 walks in 82 1/3 innings pitched. For his performance, he won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award and became the first relief pitcher in 11 years to win the Cy Young Award. With Ferguson Jenkins, he is one of only two Canadian pitchers to win the most prestigious pitching award in baseball. In baseball statistics, earned run average (denoted by ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. ...
In baseball statistics, a base on balls (BB), also called a walk, is used in baseball to track the performance of pitchers and batters. ...
In Major League Baseball, the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award, first awarded in 1976, is a distinction given to the top relief pitcher in each league at the end of each season. ...
In baseball, the Cy Young Award is an honor given annually to the best pitchers in the Major Leagues. ...
Ferguson Arthur Fergie Jenkins (born December 13, 1943 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada) was a professional baseball player. ...
On July 15, 2004 – just ten days after his saves streak ended – Gagné collected his 130th save as a Dodger in a 5-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona, surpassing Jeff Shaw for the most career saves in team history. July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ...
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The Arizona Diamondbacks are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Bank One Ballpark, also known as The BOB, is a stadium located in Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Phoenix is surrounded by twenty two towns and cities that have grown so closely together that it is almost impossible to distinguish one from another in this satellite image. ...
See also
This is an alphabetical list of 203 baseball players from Canada which had played in Major League Baseball between 1875 and 2004. ...
External links - Eric Gagne (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6342) at ESPN.com
- Baseball-Reference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gagneer01.shtml) - career statistics and analysis
- A more detailed biography of Gagne (http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Gagne/Gagne_bio.html)
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