Trent Durrington

Second baseman

Born: 27 August 1975
Sydney, Australia

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

6 August, 1999, for the Anaheim Angels

Last MLB appearance

28 September, 2005, for the Milwaukee Brewers

MLB statistics

Batting average

.196

Home runs

Runs batted in

Teams

Anaheim Angels (1999–2000, 2003)
Milwaukee Brewers (2004–2005)

Trent John Durrington (born 27 August 1975 in Sydney, Australia) is a former Major League Baseball player. He is primarily a second baseman. In his years as a student, he attended The Southport School located in Gold Coast. He is married to Alison Baitmen with a son Max born in early 2007.

After making his major league debut on 6 August 1999, with the Anaheim Angels, Durrington would also see action with Anaheim in the 2000 and 2003 seasons. Durrington signed with the Milwaukee Brewers as a free agent after the 2003 season expired, where he saw action in the 2004 and 2005 seasons. In what would turn out to be his penultimate game in the major leagues on 26 September 2005, Durrington achieved a very unusual feat: He entered the game as a pinch-runner and later struck out to end the same inning.^[1] He made his big league pitching debut in a 14–5 loss 17 April 2004 at Houston, retiring the only man he faced, Jose Vizcaino, on a fly ball to right field. Durrington is the only Australian position player to have pitched in the Majors.^[2]

In March 2006, Durrington played with the Australian national team in the World Baseball Classic. He then spent the regular season playing with Boston's Triple-A affiliate, the Pawtucket Red Sox. Durrington played for the Buffalo Bisons, the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, in 2007. He has made four career pitching appearances in the minors as well, and holds a career record of 1–1. He was released and retired at the end of the 2007 season and now resides in Sydney.

Durrington's Minor league win came on 5 May 2007 at Dunn Tire Park against the Pawtucket Red Sox. The win came in a game that was suspended on 23 April, but resumed nearly two weeks later. Durrington entered in the top of the 9th with the bases loaded and the Bisons losing 12–6. He walked the first two batters before retiring Luis Antonio Jimenez. The Bisons then managed to send thirteen men to the plate in the bottom of the ninth and got Durrington his only professional win with a bases-loaded walk.

In 2015 he was inducted into the Australian Baseball Hall of Fame, in the category "Special induction for players who have had outstanding careers in the game of baseball Internationally,(e.g. MLB, Asia and other areas), and made outstanding contributions to the game of Baseball who may not meet the standard criteria."^[3]

References

↑ Adam McCalvy, "Bats blast Brewers past Reds", MLB.com, 26 September 2005
↑ Non-pitchers with pitching appearances Baseball Reference
↑ http://baseball.com.au/trentdurrington |date accessed: 27 February 2016

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

Australia 2006 World Baseball Classic roster

4 Gavin Fingleson 6 Rodney van Buizen 7 Trent Durrington 8 Trent Oeltjen 11 Adam Bright 13 Matthew Gahan 14 Dave Nilsson 15 Paul Mildren 16 Luke Hughes 17 Brett Roneberg 18 Glenn Williams 19 Rich Thompson 21 Phil Brassington 22 Brendan Kingman 23 Paul Rutgers 24 John Stephens 25 Tom Brice 26 Justin Huber 27 Damian Moss 29 Brad Harman 30 Tristan Crawford 31 Craig Anderson 35 Matthew Kent 39 Phil Stockman 42 Peter Moylan 44 Wayne Lundgren 47 Andrew Graham 48 Michael Collins 57 Adrian Burnside Josh Hill Ryan Rowland-Smith

Manager Jon Deeble

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