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Orel Hershiser
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Career Notes

1996
Had a team-high 33 starts and a 4.24 ERA ... Went 15-9, the sixth time in his career he's won 15-plus games ... Finished fourth among American League pitchers with 2.5 walks per nine innings ... Named AL Pitcher of the Month for June after going 5-0 with a 1.83 ERA.

1995
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as a free agent on April 8, 1995 ... Tied Charles Nagy for the team lead in wins with 16 (tied for fifth in the AL), the most wins per season for Orel since his 23-8 Cy Young-winning season in 1988 ... Had a six-hit, 10-strikeout complete game shutout on June 5 vs. Detroit at Jacobs Field, his 25th shutout and 66th complete game ... On the disabled list from June 22-July 7 with a sprained lower back ... Indians were 19-7 in his 26 starts in 1995 ... His four postseason wins placed him at the top of the Indians postseason victory chart, bettering Stan Coveleski's mark of three ... Won the ALCS Most Valuable Player award, becoming the first player to win the award in both leagues.

1994
Started season with three-game winning streak ... Notched his 1,400th career strikeout May 8 vs. arch-rival San Francisco ... Earned a 7-4, complete-game victory over the Giants on June 28, despite giving up a career-high four homers.

1993
Led the Dodgers in starts (33), complete games (five), innings pitched (215.2) and losses (14) ... His 1,371 career strikeouts place him sixth on the Dodgers' all-time list ... One of only eight active players with at least 10 years of big-league service to play his entire career for the same team ... Hit .356 (the highest batting average ever for a Dodger pitcher) ... Earned his first Silver Slugger Award ... Fanned eight batters twice (May 9 and June 7) ... Had his first shutout since 1989 on May 21 ... Gave up a team-high 17 homers.

1992
Gave up a home run to Atlanta's John Smoltz April 18, the first time he surrendered a homer to an opposing pitcher ... Had three hits April 24 ... Collected his first pinch-hit Aug. 21 ... Allowed six runs in an inning April 13 for the first time since 1986 ... Had a club-best four-game winning streak May 19-June 9.

1991
Awarded the United Press International Comeback Player of the Year ... Began the season on the disabled list March 31 ... Started first major-league game in 396 days on May 29 ... Registered his first win since April 19, 1990 on June 9 ... Started his 200th game June 19.

1990
Shoulder surgery ended his eighth big-league season on April 27.

1989
His 2.31 ERA was the second best in the National League ... His 256 2/3 innings pitched was tops in the NL for the second straight season ... Faced the most batters in the NL (1,047).

1988
His 23 wins were the most by a Dodger since Sandy Koufax won 27 in 1966 ... His record setting 59 straight scoreless innings broke Don Drysdale's 58-inning string in 1968 ... Unanimous Cy Young Award winner ... Selected to the NL All-Star team ... Named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year and won a Gold Glove ... His 2.26 ERA was third in the NL ... His eight shutouts and 267 innings pitched paced the NL ... Won the NL Championship Series and World Series Most Valuable Player awards ... Shut out the Mets in Game 7 of the NLCS ... His complete-game victory over Oakland in Game 5 clinched the World Series ... Became the first player to throw shutouts in a League Championship Series and World Series in the same season .... His 24 2/3 innings pitched in the NLCS was a single-series standard.

1987
Shared third place in the NL in wins (16), placed third in ERA (3.06), tied for fourth in strikeouts (190) and finished first in innings pitched (264 2/3) ... Earned his first All-Star selection ... Went 5-1 with a 0.90 ERA in June to earn NL Pitcher of the Month ... Fanned 14 batters June 19.

1986
Posted 10 strikeouts twice during the season (May 16 and July 28) ... His lone shutout of the year came Sept. 29 in his next to last start ... Notched a 10-5 record and 3.07 ERA at home and a 4-9 mark with a 4.84 ERA on the road.

1985
His 19-3 record was the best winning percentage (.864) in all of baseball ... Tied for third in the league in shutouts (5) and ranked third in ERA (2.03) ... Ended the season with a winning streak of 11 games.

1984
His four shutouts tied for the league lead ... Finished third in ERA (2.66) ... Named Pitcher of the Month for his four July shutouts... Won his first major-league game as a reliever April 5 ... His first victory as a starter came June 29.

1983
Made his major-league debut Sept. 1 ... Saved his first big-league game Sept. 30, the evening the Dodgers clinched the Western Division ... Went 10-8 with a 4.09 ERA for Class AAA Albuquerque of the Pacific Coast League prior to his call-up to the Dodgers.


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