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Luis Clemente Tiant Vega (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis ˈtjant]) (November 23, 1940 – October 8, 2024), nicknamed "El Tiante", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 19 years, primarily for the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox.
Luis Eleuterio Tiant Bravo [1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis ˈtjant]; August 27, 1906 – December 10, 1976), also known as Luis Tiant Sr., was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher in Negro league baseball, the Cuban League, the Mexican League, and in the Dominican Republic. He also performed with barnstorming teams.
Luis Tiant pitched a complete game for the Red Sox as they blew out the Athletics, 7–1, in Game 1. In Game 2, the Athletics jumped out to an early 3–0 lead in the top of the fourth, but it was quickly erased as the Red Sox scored six unanswered runs over the course of the next five innings.
Tiant amassed 229 wins over his 19-year playing career, which also included stints with the Indians, Twins, Yankees, Pirates and Angels. He was a three-time All-Star and two-time American League ...
His death comes one week after that of all-time baseball hits leader Pete Rose, whose Cincinnati Reds faced Tiant's Red Sox in the 1975 World Series — still considered one of the greatest in baseball history. Tiant won Game 1, shutting out the Reds, threw 155 pitches in a complete game victory in Game 4 and was back on the mound for eight ...
This despite 229 wins, a 3.30 career ERA and 2,416 strikeouts. Tiant won 20 games four times, was a three-time All-Star and led the American League in ERA twice: 1.60 in 1968 and 1.91 in 1972.
Renowned Cuban baseball player Luis Tiant died Tuesday at his home in Maine, according to the Boston Red Sox. He was 83. ... Luis Tiant, passed away,” Tiant’s former teammate and nine-time All ...
Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of ...