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Ramón Diogenes Ortiz (born May 24, 1973 in Cotui, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for Orix Buffaloes. He previously pitched for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins, and the Colorado Rockies. His best season was 2002, when he went 15-9 with a 3.77 ERA for the Angels.
On September 4, 2006, Ortiz took a no-hitter into the 9th inning against the Cardinals before having it broken up by the first batter, Aaron Miles in the 9th. Ortiz also hit his first career home run in the same game. It was a solo shot off of St. Louis reliever Jorge Sosa. Ortiz was three outs away from becoming the third no-hit pitcher in Major League Baseball who had homered in the same game, joining Earl Wilson (1962) and Rick Wise (1971).
On January 19, 2007, Ortiz signed with the Minnesota Twins for a one year deal worth $3.1 million dollars. Ortiz began the season as the third starter, behind Johan Santana and Boof Bonser, but ahead of Sidney Ponson and Carlos Silva. [1]However, after a disappointing start to the season, Ortiz was moved to the bullpen.[2]
On August 15, 2007, Ortiz was traded to the Colorado Rockies in return for minor leaguer Matt Macri. He became a free agent following the season.
On April 1, 2008 he was signed by the Orix Buffaloes.
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Orix Buffaloes current roster |
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0 Makoto Moriyama | 3 Arihito Muramatsu | 7 Osamu Hamanaka | 8 Tuffy Rhodes | 10 Keiji Obiki | 11 Hidetaka Kawagoe | 13 Akio Shimizu | 15 Daisuke Katoh | 19 Chihiro Kaneko | 20 Shogo Yamamoto | 22 Daisuke Maeda | 23 Hirotoshi Kitagawa | 24 Mitsutaka Gotoh | 27 Takeshi Hidaka | 28 Satoshi Komatsu | 31 Makoto Shiozaki | 34 Kazuya Motoyanagi | 36 Shinji Shimoyama | 42 Alex Cabrera | 43 Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara | 44 Fumihiro Suzuki | 48 Makoto Yoshino | 49 Shinya Nakayama | 50 Ramón Ortiz | 52 Tomotaka Sakaguchi | 54 Ikki | 65 Kazuki Kondoh | 66 Shintaro Yoshida
Coaching: Manager 81 Daijiro Ohishi (instead of Terry Collins)
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