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Frank Thomas Cimorelli (born August 2, 1968) is a former
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pitcher. Cimorelli played for the
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in . Cimorelli attended Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in
Hyde Park, New York Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States, bordering the Hudson River north of Poughkeepsie. Within the town are the hamlets of Hyde Park, East Park, Staatsburg, and Haviland. Hyde Park is known as the hometown of Frankl ...
where he was teammates with Jeff Pierce. He played
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in high school and middle infield at
Dutchess Community College Dutchess Community College (SUNY Dutchess, Dutchess, or DCC) is a public community college in Dutchess County, New York. It is one of 30 community colleges within the State University of New York system (SUNY). The main campus covers . DCC also ...
on days when he was not pitching. At Dutchess, he batted .340 as a sophomore and won seven games as a pitcher. In his only season at Dominican College, he was an honorable mention NAIA All-American. He was drafted in the 37th round of the
1987 Major League Baseball draft The Major League Baseball Draft is the process by which Major League Baseball (MLB) teams select athletes to play for their organization. High school seniors, college juniors and seniors, and anyone who had never played under a professional cont ...
, signed for the minimum salary and received a signing bonus of $1,000. In 1992, Cimorelli set a Minor League Baseball record for pitchers with 65 consecutive games without committing an
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. Cimorelli spent five seasons in the minors, including three uninterrupted years with the
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, before making his Major League debut against the
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on April 30, 1994. In his final Major League appearance on July 18, 1994, he surrendered four
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s in a third of an inning against the Houston Astros, setting the stage for the biggest comeback in the history of the
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1968 births Living people Baseball players from New York (state) Dominican Chargers baseball players St. Louis Cardinals players Major League Baseball pitchers Sportspeople from Poughkeepsie, New York Dutchess Falcons baseball players Arkansas Travelers players El Paso Diablos players American expatriate baseball players in Mexico Johnson City Cardinals players Louisville Redbirds players New Haven Ravens players Piratas de Campeche players Springfield Cardinals players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1960s-stub