Fred Lewis

Infobox MLB player
name=Fred Lewis


width = 300
position=Outfielder
team=San Francisco Giants
number=14
bats=Left
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1980|12|9
birthplace=city-state|Hattiesburg|Mississippi
debutdate=September 1
debutyear=2006
debutteam=San Francisco Giants
statyear=September 7, 2008
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.279
stat2label=On base percentage
stat2value=.350
stat3label=Slugging percentage
stat3value=.439
stat4label=Home runs
stat4value=9
stat5label=Runs batted in
stat5value=39
stat6label=Stolen bases
stat6value=21
teams=
*San Francisco Giants (by|2006–present)

Frederick Deshaun Lewis (born December 9, 1980 in city-state|Hattiesburg|Mississippi) is an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He made his debut on September 1, 2006 with the Giants. He is the cousin of former Major League outfielder Matt Lawton. Lewis also hit the 46th Splash Hit at AT&T Park.

High school and college

Lewis graduated from Stone High School in city-state|Wiggins|Mississippi in 1999, where he was a three sport star in basketball, football, and baseball. He went on to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he played both football and baseball.After graduating in 2001, he was drafted in the 20th round (585th overall) by the Montreal Expos, but opted not to sign, instead attending Southern University in city-state|Baton Rouge|Louisiana to play baseball. While attending Southern University, Lewis flipped a truck he was driving on a rainy night, and three of the occupants in the car were killed.

Professional career

Minor leagues

2002

Lewis was drafted in the second round (66th overall), and was sent to the short season-A Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. While there, earned Northwest League All-Star honors, leading the league with a .322 batting average, while finishing 5th for both hits (77) and on-base percentage(.396). Lewis also was named co-Player of Month for July, along with Dan Ortmeier and Greg Bruso.

2003

Lewis spent all of 2003 with the Hagerstown Suns, where he finished the season second in the Giants organization with 30 stolen bases. He also led the team with 61 runs scored, while ranking 3rd in games (114) and doubles(17). Lewis finished the season with a .250 batting average, but as a result of leading the team in walks with 68, wound up with a .361 on-base percentage.

2005

Lewis starred on the Norwich Navigators in Norwich, Connecticut, where it was customary for fans to shout his name while he was at bat, on deck, running in from the field or anywhere else in view. Lewis would choose the loudest fans to join him in Fred Lewis' Pancake Breakfasts^tm.

Major Leagues

2006

Lewis was a September call-up in 2006, making his debut on September 1 at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs; he had a base hit in each of his first three at bats. Lewis finished the year 5-11 with 2 RBI.

2007

Lewis made his first appearance on a major league 25-man roster on May 10, 2007, and hit for the cycle on May 13, Mother's Day, in only his 16th game in the majors at Colorado. Lewis doubled leading off the game, then hit a three-run opposite-field home run in the fourth inning (both against Taylor Buchholz), followed by an RBI triple in the fifth (against Tom Martin) and a single leading off the seventh inning (against Denny Bautista). Lewis' cycle was the 22nd in Giants franchise history. Lewis is one of only a handful of major league baseball players to hit his first homer as part of a cycle.

On June 1, Lewis hit his first MLB grand slam against the Philadelphia Phillies. Little over a month later, on July 4, Lewis hit another grand slam against the Cincinnati Reds, becoming the first player in San Francisco Giants history to hit two grand slams in his rookie season.cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070513&content_id=1962940&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |title=Giants rookie Lewis hits for the cycle| last=Haft| first=Chris| work=MLB.com| date=2007-05-13]

tatistics

ee also

* Hitting for the cycle

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NAME= Lewis, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Lewis, Frederick Deshaun
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American baseball outfielder
DATE OF BIRTH=1980-12-9
PLACE OF BIRTH=city-state|Hattiesburg|Mississippi, United States
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=