Anibal sanchez detroit tigers biography

Few Detroit Tigers have dominated Comerica Park like Aníbal Sánchez did a decade ago.

Justin Verlander no-hit the Brewers there in 2007. Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game (minus, y'know, that wrong call at the end) against Cleveland there in 2010. More recently, Matthew Boyd got within an out of a no-hitter against the White Sox there back in 2017.

And then there were the pair of starts by Sánchez not even a month apart in the spring of 2013. In the first, on April 26, he struck out 17 Atlanta Braves, with 14 on whiffs — in all, the most strikeouts in a game in Tigers franchise history. "Amazing," he told reporters after finding out about the record. "It's amazing I can do that for a team that has over 100 years."

Still, he wasn’t one to rest on past success: "I'm going to keep working," Sánchez said after the milestone. "That's not going to stop today."

And so he did.

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A month later, on May 24 — exactly a decade ago this Wednesday — he merely struck out 12 while getting within two outs of a no-hitter of his own against the Minnesota Twins. Only a single up the middle by star catcher Joe Mauer ended that bid. Sánchez was still going strong, though — he ended the game with a pair of strikeouts.

"You know what?" then-Tigers manager Jim Leyland told reporters that night. "When you pitch a one-hitter and the one hit you give up is to a guy who has three batting titles and is a great hitter — one of the best in baseball and has been for a long time — that's a hell of a performance. He was terrific."

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Sánchez announced his retirement from baseball on Wednesday via Instagram. In all, he pitched 16 seasons: Six with the Tigers, seven with the Florida/Miami Marlins (his first franchise), one with the Braves and three with the Washington Nationals. His back-of-the-baseball-

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1984)

Baseball player

Aníbal Alejandro Sánchez Jr. (Spanish:[aˈniβalˈsantʃes]; born February 27, 1984) is a Venezuelan former professional baseballpitcher. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2006 with the Florida Marlins and also played for the Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, and Washington Nationals. On September 6, 2006, in his 13th career Major League start, Sánchez pitched a no-hitter against the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Career

Boston Red Sox

Sánchez was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an international free agent in 2001. After playing in the Venezuelan Summer League for two seasons, Sánchez suffered an elbow injury that required surgery to move his elbow ligament, causing him to miss the entire 2003 season.

In the following year, he returned to the mound, this time making his debut on American soil with the short-season Single-A Lowell Spinners. In 15 starts, Sánchez posted a 3–4 record with a 1.77 earned run average (ERA), and by the end of the year was widely considered one of Boston's top pitching prospects. After the 2004 season, Baseball America named Sánchez Boston's fifth-best prospect, behind shortstop Hanley Ramírez, outfielder Brandon Moss, and pitchers Jonathan Papelbon and Jon Lester. By 2006, Ramírez, Papelbon, and Lester had all played in the majors; Moss was selected as the Portland Sea Dogs most valuable player in 2006.

2005 saw the young prospect starting the season off in Wilmington, Boston's High

Former Tigers right-hander Aníbal Sánchez, who holds the Detroit franchise record with 17 strikeouts in a nine-inning game against the Braves at Comerica Park in 2013, is retiring after 16 years in the majors.

The 39-year-old Venezuelan posted a retirement message on Instagram on Tuesday after going unsigned the first six weeks of the season.

Sánchez went 116-119 with a 4.06 ERA in 364 appearances, 341 as a starter. He spent his first seven years with Miami, going 44-45, then had a 46-49 record in six seasons with Detroit.

On April 26, 2013, Sánchez blanked Atlanta 10-0 and broke the team's strikeout record held by Mickey Lolich, who struck out 16 batters on two different occasions in 1969.

Sánchez went eight innings in the win, giving up five hits and a walk on 121 pitches.

Sánchez spent his final three seasons with Washington (19-19), missing 2021 because of a cervical nerve impingement and going nearly two years between victories. He didn't pitch until July last year, finishing 4-6 with a 4.28 ERA in 14 starts.

The last of Sánchez's five trips to the postseason ended with a championship. He won the opener of the National League championship series in 2019, allowing one hit in 7 2/3 scoreless innings in Washington's 2-0 victory over St. Louis.

Sánchez was the losing pitcher in Game 3 of the World Series, but Washington beat Houston in seven games. He also lost Game 3 with Detroit in the 2012 World Series, which San Francisco swept.

“During my career, I have met people who, like me, fought tirelessly to reach the big leagues, my teammates,” Sánchez wrote. “It is true that we are from different cultures and speak different languages, and it is in the humility of wanting to learn from each other where we become a team.”

Did you know that An�bal S�nchez was the sixth starting pitcher in Florida Marlins history to win his Major League debut (June 25, 2006)? The starting / winning Fish who came before Sanchee were A.J. Burnett (August 17, 1999), Brad Penny (April 7, 2000), Jason Grilli (May 11, 2000), Josh Beckett (September 4, 2001) and Scott Olsen (June 25, 2005).

On October 12, 2013, An�bal S�nchez became only the second pitcher in Major League history (the first from an American League team) to strike out four batters in the same inning during a postseason game and the first Detroit Tigers pitcher in history to record a four strikeout inning. The four batters who "helped" Anibal make history were Jacoby Ellsbury, Shane Victorino (reached base on a passed ball), D