Darryl Kile
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Darryl Andrew Kile (December 2, 1968 – June 22, 2002) was an American professional baseball starting pitcher. He pitched from 1991 to 2002 for three Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, primarily for the Houston Astros. Kile was known for his sharp, big-breaking curveball. He died at the age of 33 of coronary artery disease in 2002 in Chicago, where he and the St. Louis Cardinals were staying for a weekend series against the Chicago Cubs. He was the first active major league player to die during the regular season since 1979, when the New York Yankees' Thurman Munson died in a plane crash.
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Win–loss record
133–119
Earned run average
4.12
Strikeouts
1,668
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Preceded byJim Abbott
Preceded byJim Abbott
Awards and achievements
Preceded byJim Abbott
Awards and achievements
No-hitter pitcher September 8, 1993
Awards and achievements
Succeeded byKent Mercker
| Awards and achievements | ||
| Preceded byJim Abbott | No-hitter pitcher September 8, 1993 | Succeeded byKent Mercker |
References
- The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/24/sports/darryl-kile-a-pitcher-for-the-cardinals-is-dead-at-33.html
- Los Angeles Timeshttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-04-sp-20102-story.html
- www.retrosheet.orghttp://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B09080HOU1993.htm
- Baseball-Reference.comhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200110120.shtml
- MLB.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070627033034/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070621&content_id=2040650&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl
- MLB.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20090307103022/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20020626&content_id=64644&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl
- Houston Astros: Armed and Dangeroushttps://books.google.com/books?id=dgfa0z-bLOkC
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- The Baltimore Sunhttps://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-06-23-0206230176-story.html
- The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/sports/baseball-coroner-verifies-the-cause-of-kile-s-death-as-natural.html
- Baseball-Reference.comhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/HOU/uniform-numbers.shtml
- MLB.comhttps://www.mlb.com/cardinals/news/zack-thompson-sporting-darryl-kile-s-old-cardinals-number
- MLB.comhttps://www.mlb.com/news/zack-thompson-promoted-to-cardinals
- "Colorado Rockies Uniform Numbers"https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/uniform-numbers.shtml
- Darryl Kile Award. Baseball Almanac. Retrieved August 14, 2011.http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/darryl_kile_award.shtml
- MLB.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070903161945/http://www.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20020623&content_id=60710&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou
- Baseball-Reference.comhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2003.shtml