Gregorio Evelio Hernández López (December 24, 1930 – December 18, 2015) was a Cuban right-handed pitcher who appeared in 18

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for the – Washington Senators of Major League Baseball. He stood tall and weighed . Hernández' professional career on the North American mainland spanned 11 seasons (1954–1958; 1961–1964; 1966–1967) and 370 games in United States and

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league baseball. His notable seasons included 1955, when he won 23 games and lost 15 while pitching in 55 games and 271

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for the

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of the Class C

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, and the following year, 1956, when he won 18 and lost 4, compiling a stellar 2.86 earned run average, for the

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of the Class A Sally League.Minor league statistics from Baseball Reference
/ref> That performance earned him a late-season call-up to the Senators, when he appeared in four games. Hernández split the next season between Charlotte, the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts, and the Senators, for whom he worked in 14 more games. Altogether, his Major League record included one

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, a 1–1 won-lost record (with an ERA of 4.45), 28

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and 24 strikeouts in 58⅔ innings.

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