Roger Alan McDowell was born on December 21,1960 and is an American former professional baseball right-handed relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1996.
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27 Facts About Roger McDowell
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Roger McDowell played for the New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles of the American League.
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Roger McDowell served as the Atlanta Braves pitching coach from 2006 to 2016.
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Roger McDowell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduated from Colerain High School and was drafted by the Mets in the third round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft from Bowling Green State University.
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Roger McDowell spent 1982 in the A-level minor leagues and spent 1983 with the AA Jackson Mets, both as a starting pitcher.
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In 1984, Roger McDowell was at Jackson when he suffered an elbow injury which limited him to only three games.
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Roger McDowell was impressive as both a middle relief pitcher and as a closer, splitting the duties with Jesse Orosco.
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Orosco was a lefty and a strikeout threat while Roger McDowell was a righty and a groundball specialist, making them a challenging pair late in games.
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Roger McDowell averaged more than two innings pitched per appearance in his rookie season and even logged the only two games started of his career.
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Roger McDowell was involved in many close games, posting an amazing 23 pitching decisions despite never starting a game.
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Roger McDowell was fantastic in the 1986 National League Championship Series, allowing a single hit in seven innings pitched including five innings in the famous sixteen-inning Game 6.
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Roger McDowell was less impressive in the World Series, where he pitched in five of the seven games.
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Roger McDowell did manage to post a career-high 25 saves but his most infamous game occurred on September 11,1987 when he gave up a game-tying 9th inning two-run home run to the St Louis Cardinals' Terry Pendleton.
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In 1989, Roger McDowell pitched about average for the Mets before the Mets blundered in mid-June by trading him and Lenny Dykstra to the Phillies for potential superstar Juan Samuel.
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Roger McDowell was untouchable in his first partial season with Philadelphia, compiling a microscopic 1.
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Roger McDowell was rewarded with his first million-dollar contract for 1990 but was only average as the Phillies finished below.
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Roger McDowell was again impressive after a mid-season trade with a 2.
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Roger McDowell was granted free agency after the season and was signed by the Texas Rangers shortly before the strike ended in April 1995.
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Roger McDowell pitched in the second-highest number of games in the American League.
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Roger McDowell's ERA was again high but better than the league average in 1996 but shoulder surgery ended his season in mid-August.
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Unfortunately for Roger McDowell, he had two more shoulder surgeries wiping out the whole season.
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In 1992, Roger McDowell made a cameo appearance in a two-part episode of Seinfeld called "The Boyfriend".
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Roger McDowell was hired as the pitching coach of the Dodgers' single-A minor league South Georgia Waves for 2002 and 2003.
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On October 29,2005, Roger McDowell was hired to replace Leo Mazzone as the pitching coach of the Atlanta Braves after Mazzone became the coach for the Baltimore Orioles.
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Roger McDowell's contract was not renewed following the end of the 2016 season.
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