Rafael Santo Domingo

{{short description|Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1955)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|image=Rafael Santo Domingo (cropped).jpg

|width=

|name=Rafael Santo Domingo

|position=Pinch hitter

|bats=Switch

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1955|11|24}}

|birth_place=Orocovis, Puerto Rico

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 7

|debutyear={{baseball year|1979}}

|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 30

|finalyear={{baseball year|1979}}

|finalteam=Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.167

|stat2label=Runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=1

|teams=

• Cincinnati Reds ({{mlby|1979}})

}}

Rafael Santo Domingo Molina (born November 24, 1955) is a retired Major League Baseball pinch hitter. He played during one season at the major league level for the Cincinnati Reds. He was signed by the Reds as an amateur free agent in {{baseball year|1974}}. Santo Domingo played his last professional season with their Triple-A affiliates, the Indianapolis Indians, in {{baseball year|1980}}.

Formerly the hitting coach of the Pulaski Mariners,{{cite web |url=http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090113&content_id=3742870&vkey=news_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea |title=Mariners announce Minors coaches |accessdate=January 14, 2009 |author=Jim Street |authorlink=MLB.com |date=January 12, 2009 |work=MLB.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124175234/http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090113&content_id=3742870&vkey=news_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea |archivedate=January 24, 2009 }} Santo Domingo is now an area scout based in Puerto Rico for the Seattle Mariners.{{Cite book| editor1-last=Leventhal| editor1-first=Josh| title=Baseball America 2015 Directory| location=Durham, N.C.| publisher=Baseball America| year=2015| isbn=978-1-932391-56-5}}