Fred Lewis

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**Fred Lewis**

San Francisco Giants — No. 14
Outfielder
Born: December 9, 1980 (1980-12-09) (age 27) Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Bats: Left	Throws: Right
Major League Baseball debut
September 1, 2006 for the San Francisco Giants
Selected MLB statistics (through May 20, 2008)
Batting average	.295
Home runs	7
RBI	32
Teams
San Francisco Giants (2006–present)

Frederick Deshaun Lewis (born December 9, 1980 in 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.

1 High school and college
2 Professional career
- 2.1 Minor leagues
- 2.2 Major Leagues
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] High school and college

Lewis graduated from Stone High School in Wiggins, Mississippi in 1998, 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 2000, he was drafted in the 20th round (585th overall) by the Montreal Expos, but opted not to sign, instead attending Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to play baseball.

[edit] Professional career

[edit] Minor leagues

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Major Leagues

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Statistics

Year	Ag	Tm	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS+	TB	SH	SF	IBB	HBP	GDP
2006	25	SF	NL	13	11	5	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.455	.455	.545	156	6	0	0	0	0	0
2007	26	SF	NL	58	157	34	45	6	2	3	19	5	3	19	32	.287	.374	.408	103	64	1	0	0	3	4
2008	27	SF	NL	31	102	19	33	8	2	3	8	5	2	14	25	.324	.405	.529	146	54	0	0	2	0	2
Totals:				102	270	58	83	15	4	6	29	10	5	33	60	.307	.389	.459	121	124	1	0	2	3	6
Roll over stat abbreviations for definitions. Stats through May 3, 2008.^[2]

[edit] See also

Hitting for the cycle

[edit] References

^ Haft, Chris (2007-05-13). Giants rookie Lewis hits for the cycle. MLB.com.
^ Fred Lewis Statistics. Baseball-Reference. Retrieved on 2008-05-04.

[edit] External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube

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