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3 unusual facts about Brian Bannister


Alexei Ramírez

On September 19, 2008, Ramírez hit his third grand slam of the season off of pitcher Brian Bannister of the Kansas City Royals in a 6–4 White Sox win, tying an American League rookie record set by Shane Spencer of the New York Yankees in 1998.

Brian Bannister

The next year, Bannister began the 2005 season in Double-A Binghamton, where he posted numbers that reflected the quality of his newly developed pitches: a 9-4 record with a 2.56 ERA in eighteen starts.

In 2004, Bannister was assigned to play for High-A St. Lucie in the Florida State League, where he put together a 5-7 record with a 4.24 ERA in twenty starts and was a Florida State League All-Star.



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