English baseball player (1946?2020)
Baseball player
Les Rohr
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1946-03-05
)
March 5, 1946
Lowestoft
,
Suffolk
, England
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Died:
November 6, 2020
(2020-11-06)
(aged 74)
Billings, Montana
, U.S.
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September 19, 1967, for the New York Mets
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September 19, 1969, for the New York Mets
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Win?loss record
| 2?3
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Earned run average
| 3.70
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Strikeouts
| 20
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Leslie Norvin Rohr
(March 5, 1946 ? November 6, 2020) was an English born baseball player for the
New York Mets
in the late 1960s. He was born in
Lowestoft
,
England
, where his father was serving with the
United States Army Air Forces
; his mother was
British
.
[1]
Six months later he moved to
Billings, Montana
, with his family, where he grew up, attended high school, and lived.
[2]
Rohr, a left-handed
pitcher
listed as 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg), was selected by the Mets in the first round (second pick overall) of the
1965 Major League Baseball Draft
. Rohr played in the
minor leagues
until being called up to play for the Mets near the end of the
1967
season.
Rohr's first game was on September 19, 1967; starting against the
Los Angeles Dodgers
at
Shea Stadium
, he went six full
innings
and allowed only three
runs
, one of which was
unearned
, and was credited with the 6?3 victory. Eleven days later, he was even more effective, going eight
shutout
innings against Los Angeles at
Dodger Stadium
and gaining a 5?0 victory in which he defeated future
Baseball Hall of Famer
Don Drysdale
.
[3]
His last game was on September 19, 1969.
[4]
[5]
He stayed with New York Mets for his entire career. In six
games
, four as a
starting pitcher
, he compiled a 2?3
won?lost record
, no
complete games
, and an
earned run average
of 3.70. In 24
1
⁄
3
innings pitched
, he allowed 27
hits
and 17
bases on balls
,
striking out
20.
The beginning of the end of Rohr's career came early the
1968
season in the final innings of a 24-inning game against the
Houston Astros
. Entering the April 15th game as a relief pitcher in the 22nd inning and pitching through the 24th inning, he pulled a
tendon
in his pitching arm.
[2]
After absorbing a 3?2 loss in his third career start against the Dodgers on April 21, he spent the remainder of the season on the disabled list or back in the
minor leagues
. Rohr made only one more appearance on the mound for the Mets, as a
relief pitcher
against the
Pittsburgh Pirates
late in 1969. The following year, which he spent in the high minors, Rohr was unconditionally released by the Mets when a routine physical discovered a ruptured disc in his lower back, scuttling a proposed trade to the
Milwaukee Brewers
.
[6]
Rohr died in November 2020, at the age of 74.
[7]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Springer, Jon,
Les Rohr,
Society for American Baseball Research
Biography Project
- ^
a
b
Girandola, Chris (June 7, 2006).
"Injuries curtailed Rohr's big-league stint"
.
New York Mets
. Major League Baseball
. Retrieved
August 21,
2011
.
- ^
Retrosheet
box score (30 September 1967): "New York Mets 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 0"
- ^
Ultimate Mets Database
- ^
"Les Rohr"
. Baseball Reference
. Retrieved
July 31,
2011
.
- ^
"Official Site of The New York Mets"
. Archived from
the original
on September 27, 2011
. Retrieved
June 9,
2008
.
- ^
1969 'Miracle Mets' pitcher Les Rohr of Billings dies at 74
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