Mario Encarnación

Mario Encarnación
Outfielder
Born: September 24, 1975(1975-09-24) Baní, Dominican Republic
Died: October 3, 2005(2005-10-03) (aged 30) Tamsui, Taipei
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 26, 2001 for the Colorado Rockies
Last MLB appearance
April 14, 2002 for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics
Batting average	.203
Home runs	0
hits	3
Teams
Colorado Rockies (2001) Chicago Cubs (2002) Lotte Giants (2003 ~ 2004) Macoto Cobras (2005)

Mario González Encarnación (September 24, 1975 - October 3, 2005) was a baseball outfielder born in Baní, Dominican Republic. He played for the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs for a brief duration—23 games in 2001 and 2002.

He had begun playing for the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan since 2005. He set a CPBL record by hitting two home runs in his first two at-bats in the league. On October 3, he was found dead in his team dormitory room.

Earlier in the season, he was briefly suspended for testing positive for steroids, leading to speculation regarding the role of drugs in his death.^[1] It had also been reported that he had been suffering from a bout of gastroenteritis for several weeks prior to his death. Autopsy reports later showed that he had died from a congenital medical condition.^[2]

References

1. ^ Chang, Richard. Baseball player found dead in dormitory room. Taipei Times, October 4, 2005.
2. ^ SABR Asian Baseball Committee Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2. December 2005.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or The Baseball Cube

Persondata
Name	Encarnacion, Mario
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	September 24, 1975
Place of birth	Baní, Dominican Republic
Date of death	October 3, 2005
Place of death	Tamsui, Taipei