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Kevin Blankenship : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kevin Blankenship
Kevin DeWayne Blankenship (born January 26, 1963) was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves. A veteran minor league journeyman, Blakenship played in eight seasons with four different Major League Baseball farm systems during his time as a professional player. Blankenships' career highlights came in and when his stellar pitching not only earned him back-to-back minor league all-star selections but also two separate major league call-ups to pitch for the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs, respectively.
==Early career==
Blankenship began his baseball career at El Dorado High School,〔 in Placentia, California where he pitched for the El Dorado Hawks varsity baseball team. He rose to prominence during his senior year in 1981, setting school records in wins, ERA, and strikeouts while leading the team to the CIF 3A championship. Blankenship was signed by the Braves as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Arizona. He spent his minor league debut with the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League Braves in as a reliever.〔 After posting a 1.34 ERA over 19 games, the rookie pitcher was called up to spend the summer of in North Carolina with the Durham Bulls.〔 Blankenship split the season as both a starting and relief pitcher, posting an 8–8 record.〔 His performance in the Single-A won the young pitcher an invitation to join the Greenville Braves, where he bounced between starting and relieving for the next two seasons.〔 During his third season with Greenville, Blankenship put on a breakout performance on the pitcher's mound posting a 13–9 record, a 2.34 ERA with 127 strikeouts.〔 Now a regular starter, he finished the season earning a spot on the 1988 Southern League All-Star team and a call up to the majors by Atlanta in late 1988. He made two starts for the Braves, debuting on September 20, when he struck out the first batter he faced, San Francisco's Brett Butler. Taking the loss on both September 20 and 25, before Atlanta traded him and Kevin Coffman to the Cubs in an extraordinarily late-in-the-season deal for catcher Jody Davis.
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