Ramón de los Santos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Dominican Republic baseball player
Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1949
Place of Birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Date of Death: 29-Nov-2015
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: Dominican Republic
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ramón de los Santos
- Ramón de los Santos Genero (January 19, 1949 – November 29, 2015) was a Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher and scout.
- The left-hander signed as a free agent with the Houston Astros on April 9, 1972 and played for them in 1974.De los Santos was called up to Houston in August 1974 after a season dominating hitters in the Double-A Southern League.
- Pitching in 42 games for the Columbus Astros, he struck out 73 batters in 76 innings and allowed only 11 earned runs.
- He was 7–4 with an ERA of 1.30. On August 21, 1974 de los Santos made his major league debut in relief against the New York Mets at the Astrodome.
- He retired the first batter he faced, right fielder Rusty Staub, then struck out first baseman John Milner to end the 6th inning.
- In 2.2 innings that night he gave up two hits, three walks, and two unearned runs, and the Astros lost, 10–2.
- They had made five errors during the game. De los Santos won his first and only big league game one week later at Shea Stadium.
- He retired Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson, the last hitter in the bottom of the 9th, and then teammate Cliff Johnson hit a home run in the top of the 10th to win the game, 3–2. Season and career totals for 12 games include a 1–1 record and 5 games finished.
- In 12?1/3 innings pitched he gave up three earned runs for an earned run average of 2.19.
- He struck out seven, walked nine and allowed 11 hits. In 1975 de los Santos pitched in both Triple-A and Double-A, and was drafted by the St.
- Louis Cardinals organization after the season (December 9), but never again appeared in a major league game. His professional playing career encompassed 15 seasons (1971–85) in U.S.
- professional baseball and Latin America.
- He later became a scout in the Dominican Republic for the Seattle Mariners and in 1992 he signed David Ortiz, then known as David Arias, to his first professional contract.
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