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American baseball player (born 1953)
Baseball player
Michael Duane "Bo" McLaughlin
(born October 23, 1953) is an American former
Major League Baseball
relief pitcher
from 1976 to 1982 for the
Houston Astros
,
Atlanta Braves
, and
Oakland Athletics
. McLaughlin is best known for being hit by a line drive that almost ended his career and his alias "Grim Bimbledon".
On May 26,
1981
, McLaughlin was pitching in the eighth inning of a game against the
Chicago White Sox
. He threw a
sinker
to
Harold Baines
, who hit a line drive into McLaughlin's face.
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The pitch broke McLaughlin's left cheekbone and his eye socket in five different places.
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McLaughlin vomited blood and went into shock. It took two surgeries to wire his cheekbone and left eye socket, and doctors at Oakland's Merritt Hospital feared that he would not survive the night.
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McLaughlin recovered to play a few games in September that year and then spent 1982 with the A's. He was demoted to the Minors in 1983 and played three seasons of
Triple-A
baseball. He later went into the real estate business
[1]
and coached in the minor leagues for the
Chicago Cubs
and
Baltimore Orioles
systems before moving on to his current job with the Rockies.
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As a hitter, McLaughlin went hitless in his six-year major league career. He had 37
at-bats
without a hit, reaching base three times by
bases on balls
in 45
plate appearances
.
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