Dinesh Patel

Dinesh Patel (born May 8, 1989 in Lucknow, India) is a right-handed baseball pitcher that played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Along with Rinku Singh, he is the first Indian national ever to sign a contract with a major American sports club.^[1]

Patel and Singh had never thrown a baseball before besting over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.^[2]

Patel, along with Singh, played for the Pirates' Gulf Coast League team in Bradenton, Florida.^[3] He had a successful, if brief, 2009 season for the Pirates, picking up a victory on August 13 (exactly one month after his countryman Singh got his first, and only, win of the year) and finishing with a 1-0 record and 1.42 ERA, allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits in 6.1 innings.^[4]

Patel's 2010 season was less successful, allowing seven earned runs in 7 1/3 innings over nine games; he was released in November.^[5]

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Million-Dollar Arm blog
• Dinesh Patel's Blog

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "Indian pitchers are first for America's national pastime"
3. ^ White, Paul (4 March 2009). "Pirates pitching imports from India are a work in progress". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/pirates/2009-03-03-pirates-india_N.htm. Retrieved 23 June 2009. 
4. ^ http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=573652
5. ^ http://bucsbits.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/11/minor_matters_2.html

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