H�ctor Pacheco Pipo Carrasco is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He bats and throws right handed. In a twelve-season career, Carrasco has posted a 44?50 record with 19 saves and a 3.99 ERA in 637 relief appearances and ten starts. Carrasco began his major league career with the Cincinnati Reds in 1994, and has also pitched for the Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. On April 15, 2000, while pitching for the Twins, Hector gave up Cal Ripken's 3000th hit in a game at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. His most productive season came in 2005 for the Nationals, when he was 5?4 with a 2.04 ERA in 64 appearances, allowing only 59 hits in 88 �?? innings and limiting opponents to a .193 batting average. He was 4?3 with a 2.04 ERA in 62.2 innings as a reliever, and 1?1 with a 2.03 ERA in 27 2.3 innings while starting five games near the season's end. In 2004, Carrasco pitched for the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Japan's Pacific League, going 8?8 with five saves and a 5.57 ERA in 53 relief appearances. 

October 22nd, 1969 in San Pedro de Macorís (Age 55)