Dinesh Patel
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Dinesh Patel is a right-handed baseball pitcher that played in the Pittsburgh Pirates
organization. Along with Rinku Singh
, he is the first India
n national ever to sign a contract with a major American
sports club.
Patel and Singh had never thrown a baseball before besting over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.
Patel, along with Singh, played for the Pirates' Gulf Coast League team in Bradenton, Florida. He had a successful, if brief, 2009 season for the Pirates, picking up a victory on August 13 (exactly one month after his countryman Singh got his first, and only, win of the year) and finishing with a 1-0 record and 1.42 ERA, allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits in 6.1 innings.
Patel's 2010 season was less successful, allowing seven earned runs in 7 1/3 innings over nine games; he was released in November.
Pittsburgh Pirates
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organization. Along with Rinku Singh
Rinku Singh
Rinku Singh is a left-handed baseball pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.-Early Life in Bhadoni:...
, he is the first India
India
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n national ever to sign a contract with a major American
United States
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sports club.
Patel and Singh had never thrown a baseball before besting over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.
Patel, along with Singh, played for the Pirates' Gulf Coast League team in Bradenton, Florida. He had a successful, if brief, 2009 season for the Pirates, picking up a victory on August 13 (exactly one month after his countryman Singh got his first, and only, win of the year) and finishing with a 1-0 record and 1.42 ERA, allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits in 6.1 innings.
Patel's 2010 season was less successful, allowing seven earned runs in 7 1/3 innings over nine games; he was released in November.