| Rafael Santo Domingo | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Pinch hitter | |||
| Born:November 24, 1955 Orocovis, Puerto Rico | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 7, 1979, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 30, 1979, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .167 | ||
| Runs | 0 | ||
| Hits | 1 | ||
| Teams | |||
Rafael Santo Domingo Molina (born November 24, 1955 in Orocovis, Puerto Rico) is a retired Major League Baseball pinch hitter. He played during one season at the major league level for the Cincinnati Reds. He was signed by the Reds as an amateur free agent in 1974. Santo Domingo played his last professional season with their Triple-A affiliates, the Indianapolis Indians, in 1980.
Orocovis is a municipality of Puerto Rico (U.S.) located in the Central Mountain Range, north of Villalba and Coamo; south of Morovis and Corozal; southeast of Ciales; east of Jayuya; and west of Barranquitas. Orocovis is spread over 17 wards and Orocovis Pueblo. It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL), with 15 teams in each league. The NL and AL were formed as separate legal entities in 1876 and 1901 respectively. After cooperating but remaining legally separate entities beginning in 1903, the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000. The organization also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises 256 teams affiliated with the Major League clubs. With the World Baseball Softball Confederation, MLB manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament.
In baseball, a pinch hitter is a substitute batter. Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead ; the manager may use any player who has not yet entered the game as a substitute. Unlike basketball, American football, or ice hockey, baseball does not have a "free substitution rule" and thus the replaced player in baseball is not allowed back into that game. The pinch hitter assumes the spot in the batting order of the player whom he replaces.
Formerly the hitting coach of the Pulaski Mariners, [1] Santo Domingo is now an area scout based in Puerto Rico for the Seattle Mariners. [2]
In professional sports, scouts are experienced talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization. Some scouts are interested primarily in the selection of prospects, younger players who may require further development by the acquiring team but who are judged to be worthy of that effort and expense for the potential future payoff that it could bring, while others concentrate on players who are already polished professionals whose rights may be available soon, either through free agency or trading, and who are seen as filling a team's specific need at a certain position. Advance scouts watch the teams that their teams are going to play in order to help determine strategy.
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.
The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Mariners compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division. The team joined the American League as an expansion team in 1977 playing their home games in the Kingdome. Since July 1999, the Mariners' home ballpark has been T-Mobile Park, located in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle.
