Scott Garrelts

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Scott Garrelts

| image = 1986 San Francisco Giants Postcards Scott Garrelts.jpg

| position = Pitcher

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|10|30}}

| birth_place = Urbana, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date =

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = October 2

| debutyear = 1982

| debutteam = San Francisco Giants

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = June 10

| finalyear = 1991

| finalteam = San Francisco Giants

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Win–loss record

| stat1value = 69–53

| stat2label = Earned run average

| stat2value = 3.29

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 703

| teams =

San Francisco Giants ({{mlby|1982}}–{{mlby|1991}})

| highlights =

}}

Scott William Garrelts (born October 30, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants from 1982 to 1991. Garrelts's best year as a Giant came during the 1989 season, when he went 14-5 with a 2.28 ERA, leading his team to the World Series against their Bay Area rivals, the Oakland Athletics.

High school and minors

Garrelts attended high school at Buckley Loda High School in Buckley, Illinois.{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/Players/G/Scott-Garrelts.shtml|title=Scott Garrelts|publisher=The Baseball Cube|access-date=2009-04-10}}

Major League career

Garrelts was the Giants' lone All-Star in 1985, a season in which he led the team in wins and ERA, and had streak of 24 consecutive scoreless innings, all as a reliever. In 1986, he was second on the Giants in wins and strikeouts. Garrelts missed the final month of the 1987 season with a broken finger tip, but still finished second on the Giants in saves, a stat in which he led the team in 1988. He missed a month of the 1989 season with a pulled hamstring. During the season, Garrelts switched from the bullpen to a starting role and led the N.L. in ERA. He was second on the Giants in wins and strikeouts in 1990.

On July 29, 1990, Garrelts took a no-hitter into the ninth inning at home against the Cincinnati Reds, which was broken up by Paul O'Neill, with a two-out single over shortstop Jose Uribe's head.[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/30/sports/no-hitter-eludes-garrelts-of-giants.html "No-Hitter Eludes Garrelts Of Giants", New York Times (Associated Press) (July 30, 1990).]

While with the Giants, Garrelts and teammates Dave Dravecky, Atlee Hammaker, and Jeff Brantley became known as the "God Squad" because of their strong Christian faith. Forgoing the hard-partying lifestyle of many of their teammates, they preferred to hold Bible studies in their hotel rooms while on the road.{{cite book|last1=Dravecky|first1=Dave|title=Called Up: Stories of Life and Faith from the Great Game of Baseball|date=2004|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=031087159X|page=162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVSFzlpPUO4C&q=dravecky+Hammaker+brantley+god+squad&pg=PA162}}

References

External links

{{baseballstats|br=g/garresc01|brm=garrel001sco|retro=G/Pgarrs001}}

[https://web.archive.org/web/20090616063316/http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090612&content_id=5298648&vkey=news_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf Giants of 1989 Bask in the Memories]

{{succession box

| title = Youngest Player in the
National League

| years = 1982

| before = David Green
1981

| after = Gilberto Reyes
1983

}}

Category:National League All-Stars

Category:National League ERA champions

Category:San Francisco Giants players

Category:Major League Baseball pitchers

Category:Baseball players from Champaign County, Illinois

Category:People from Urbana, Illinois