Danilo León
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Danilo Enrique León Lineco (born April 3, 1967) is a Venezuelan former professional relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at Template:Convert, Template:Convert, he batted and threw right handed.<ref name="Danilo León statistics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In addition, he pitched in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League and Mexican Baseball.
Born in La Cañada de Urdaneta, Zulia, León began his professional baseball career at the age of 19 with the Gulf Coast Expos in Template:Baseball year.<ref name="Danilo León minor league statistics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In Template:Baseball year, he posted a combined record of 10 wins with 3 losses along with a 1.38 earned run average and 115 strikeouts in 130 innings pitched.<ref name="Danilo León minor league statistics"/>
León made his major league debut with the Texas Rangers in 1992, but only managed to post a 5.89 earned run average in 18 innings and returned to play in the minor leagues the following season.<ref name="Danilo León statistics"/>
In between, he pitched in the Venezuelan league for 15 seasons, most notably for the Águilas del Zulia club.<ref name="Danilo León Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He ended his career in 2005 at the age of 37.<ref name="Danilo León Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics"/>
Highlights
On November 23, 1999, León hurled a 2–0 no-hitter against the Tigres de Aragua at Estadio Luis Aparicio El Grande in Maracaibo.<ref>Gutiérrez, Daniel; González, Javier (2006); Records de la Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional. LVBP. Template:ISBN</ref>
He also has the second most strikeouts in Águilas team history, being surpassed only by Julio Machado.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- 1967 births
- Águilas del Zulia players
- Caribes de Oriente players
- Charros de Jalisco players
- Gulf Coast Expos players
- Jacksonville Expos players
- Jamestown Expos players
- Leones de Yucatán players
- Living people
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
- Mexican League baseball pitchers
- Nashville Sounds players
- Oklahoma City 89ers players
- Baseball players from Zulia
- Petroleros de Cabimas players
- Charlotte Rangers players
- Texas Rangers players
- Tulsa Drillers players
- Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Mexico
- Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in the United States
- West Palm Beach Expos players
- 20th-century Venezuelan sportsmen