:Rick Guttormson

{{Short description|American baseball player (born 1977)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

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| name = Rick Guttormson

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| position = Starting pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|1|11}}

| birth_place = Torrance, California

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutdate = April 9

| debutyear = 2009

| debutleague = KBO

| debutteam = Kia Tigers

| statyear = 2009

| statleague = KBO

| stat1label = Win–loss record

| stat1value = 13–4

| stat2label = Earned run average

| stat2value = 3.24

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 95

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Rick Lee Guttormson (リック・ガトームソン, 릭 구톰슨) (born January 11, 1977) is a former professional baseball starting pitcher.

He became the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the history of interleague play in Japanese baseball, doing so against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on May 25, {{baseball year|2006}}. As of the 2022, he became the last foreign pitcher to throw a no hitter in Nippon Professional Baseball until 2022, when Cody Ponce of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters did so against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on the 27th of August.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-08-27 |title=Baseball: Fighters' Ponce throws season's 5th no-hitter | Kyodo News |url=https://nordot.app/936181113818841088?c=445918389795193953 |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=Kyodo News |language=en-US}}

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