Orel Hersheiser later became a broadcast color analyst for the Dodgers.
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37 Facts About Orel Hersheiser
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Orel Hersheiser helped lead the Dodgers to a championship in the 1988 World Series, and was named the National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player and the World Series MVP.
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Orel Hersheiser later pitched in two more World Series and earned the American League Championship Series MVP Award.
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Orel Hersheiser's father was a coach and league administrator and his mother ran the snackbar.
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Orel Hersheiser's family moved again and he attended Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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Orel Hersheiser did not make the varsity team until his junior year as he spent his first year on the freshman team and his second year on the junior varsity.
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Orel Hersheiser set the single-game strikeout record for his high school in 1976 when he retired 15 batters in a game against Deptford, a record that stood for 21 years.
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Orel Hersheiser remains on the school's leaderboards in career winning percentage, strikeouts and earned run average.
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Orel Hersheiser left school and hitchhiked home, where his parents convinced him to return to school.
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Orel Hersheiser enrolled in summer school to bring his grades up and worked at his father's paper company during the summer.
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Orel Hersheiser made the all-Mid-American Conference All-Star team his junior year, during which he pitched a no-hitter against Kent State on May 4,1979.
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Orel Hersheiser was leading the league in saves at one point but then gave up 20 runs in seven innings on a road trip.
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Orel Hersheiser wanted to quit but the manager and pitching coach talked him out of it.
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Orel Hersheiser was almost included in a trade with the Texas Rangers that season, but catcher Jim Sundberg wanted his contract re-written before agreeing to the deal and the Dodgers backed out of the transaction.
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Orel Hersheiser came into the game in the seventh inning and retired all three batters he faced on two ground outs and a strikeout.
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Orel Hersheiser was almost arrested when some fireworks his friends were setting off for a New Year's party hit a Dominican General's house, but Dodger coach Manny Mota intervened on his behalf.
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Orel Hersheiser gave him the nickname "Bulldog" so that he would have a tougher attitude in games.
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Orel Hersheiser saw his first post-season action, pitching in two games in the 1985 National League Championship Series.
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Orel Hersheiser was selected to his second all-star game and was a unanimous selection for the National League Cy Young Award.
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Orel Hersheiser won the Gold Glove Award for the best fielding pitcher in the National League.
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Orel Hersheiser then pitched a complete-game shutout in Game 7 and was selected as the NLCS MVP.
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Orel Hersheiser then pitched a shutout in Game 2 of the World Series and allowed only two runs in a complete game in the clinching victory in Game 5, winning the World Series MVP Award.
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Orel Hersheiser later received both The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year and Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award for his accomplishments in 1988.
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Orel Hersheiser was determined to stay in until his team took the lead, no matter what the manager wanted.
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Orel Hersheiser won his last six decisions and was selected as the UPI Comeback Player of the Year.
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Orel Hersheiser's numbers were not what they were before the surgery, but he was still effective.
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Orel Hersheiser pitched effectively in the 1995 World Series against the Atlanta Braves, though the Indians would lose the series in six games.
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Orel Hersheiser started the home opener on April 14,2000, against the Reds and allowed only one run in six strong innings.
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Orel Hersheiser struggled after that, allowed 36 runs on 42 hits, 14 walks and 11 hit batters.
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Orel Hersheiser left his position of Rangers pitching coach after the 2005 season to become an executive director of the Rangers, reporting to Club President Jeff Cogen.
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Orel Hersheiser did not last long in that position as he quit on February 3,2006.
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Orel Hersheiser's group did not make it past the first round of the bidding.
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Orel Hersheiser was invited to participate in the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
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