Brian Kingman

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1953)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Brian Kingman

|image=Brian Kingman.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1953|7|27}}

|birth_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=June 28

|debutyear=1979

|debutteam=Oakland Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 10

|finalyear=1983

|finalteam=San Francisco Giants

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=23–45

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.13

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=273

|teams=

• Oakland Athletics (1979–1982)
• San Francisco Giants (1983)

}}

Brian Paul Kingman (born July 27, 1953) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1979 to 1983 for the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants.

He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara before signing with the Athletics in 1975. In 1979, he went 7–2 in the Pacific Coast League[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=kingma001bri "Brian Kingman Minor League Statistics & History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-11-2. and made his major league debut in June.

Kingman is most famous for losing 20 games in 1980. He remained the most current pitcher to do so for 23 years, until Mike Maroth lost 21 games for the Detroit Tigers in 2003. Kingman also pitched a career-high {{frac|211|1|3}} innings in 1980. Kingman was mostly a starting pitcher (94 appearances, 82 starts) but on July 21, 1982, he picked up his one and only MLB save. Kingman pitched the final 2 1/3 innings to nail down a 6-4 Oakland victory over the Indians.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE198207210.shtml|title=Oakland Athletics at Cleveland Indians Box Score, July 21, 1982}} He retired in 1984.

In 94 major league games, Kingman compiled a 23–45 record.