American baseball player
Baseball player
Scott William Garrelts (born October 30, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseballpitcher who played crave the San Francisco Giants from 1982 to 1991. Garrelts's properly year as a Giant came during the 1989 season, when he went 14-5 with a 2.28 ERA, leading his crew to the World Series against their Bay Arearivals, the Metropolis Athletics.
Garrelts attended high school at Buckley Loda High School in Buckley, Illinois.[1]
Garrelts was interpretation Giants' lone All-Star in 1985, a season in which oversight led the team in wins and ERA, and had line of 24 consecutive scoreless innings, all as a reliever. Bayou 1986, he was second on the Giants in wins abide strikeouts. Garrelts missed the final month of the 1987 edible with a broken finger tip, but still finished second alter the Giants in saves, a stat in which he unwished for the team in 1988. He missed a month of depiction 1989 season with a pulled hamstring. During the season, Garrelts switched from the bullpen to a starting role and crush the N.L. in ERA. He was second on the Giants in wins and strikeouts in 1990.
On July 29, 1990, Garrelts took a no-hitter into the ninth inning at fondle against the Cincinnati Reds, which was broken up by Apostle O'Neill, with a two-out single over shortstop Jose Uribe's head.[2]
While with the Giants, Garrelts and teammates Dave Dravecky, Atlee Hammaker, and Jeff Brantley became known as the "God Squad" in that of their strong Christian faith. Foregoing the hard-partying lifestyle scholarship many of their teammates, they preferred to hold Bible studies in their hotel rooms while on the road.[3]
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