Kenny Powers is the fictional main character from the HBO television series Eastbound and Down, played by American actor Danny McBride. Powers is portrayed as a once dominant baseball pitcher, whose poor work ethic and short temper jeopardized his professional career. In season one, Powers becomes a substitute physical education teacher who is attempting to make a return to Major League Baseball.

Character biography

Powers enjoyed a spectacular debut, but his abrasive personality led him to be constantly traded as he wore out his welcome quickly, and in less than seven years he found himself out of major league baseball completely, He then went back to his hometown of Shelby, North Carolina to accept a job as a substitute physical education teacher at his former middle school, while trying to get back into the majors.

Statistics

Year	Club	G Games played Games played is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ; the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.-Baseball:In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game,...	IP Innings pitched In baseball, innings pitched are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two...	W-L	S	SO Strikeout In baseball or softball, a strikeout or strike-out occurs when a batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. A strikeout is a statistic recorded for both pitchers and batters....	BB Base on balls A base on balls is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire calls balls. It is better known as a walk. The base on balls is defined in Section 2.00 of baseball's Official Rules, and further detail is given in 6.08...	ER Earned run In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable . Any runner who tags his base and reaches home plate is scored against the pitcher as an earned run...	ERA Earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...	WAR
2001	Gwinnett*	15	23	4-0	12	28	0	1	0.39
2002	Atlanta	62		7-3	49	106	30	21	2.85	1.75
2003	New York	64		7-3	39	79	20	33	4.74	1.13
2004	San Francisco	52		3-10	30	44	27	40	6.59
2005	Boston	15		0-6	3	6	9	12	8.57
2006	Seattle	unknown
Career totals		208		21-22	133	263	86	107	4.40	2.11

* Atlanta minor league

Minor league baseball

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Kenny Powers Merchandise

HBO introduced officially licensed Eastbound & Down t-shirts featuring quotes from the show as well as shirts based on Kenny Powers' Atlanta and Charros jersey. Summer 2011, it was announced that an officially licensed Kenny Powers costume would be produced for Halloween.

Kenny Powers in Advertising

In 2011, K-Swiss

K-Swiss

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began an ad campaign featuring Kenny Powers as the new CEO of K-Swiss. The campaign focuses on the new Tubes line of K-Swiss shoes.

External links

• Kenny Powers: Career statistics