Luca Panerati (born 2 December 1989 in
Grosseto,
Tuscany, Italy) is an
Italian professional baseball pitcher. He debuted with the
Italian national baseball team in 2007 and in
minor league baseball in 2008.
Career
Panerati made his
Serie A1 debut in 2006, allowing no runs in two innings for
Bbc Grosseto
The Grosseto Baseball Club is a baseball franchise based in the city of Grosseto, Tuscany in Italy, which was founded in 1952.
History
Grosseto BBC was previously a franchise in Italy's top professional competition, the Italian Baseball League. G ...
. He played for Italy in the
2006 World Junior Championship. In 2007, he spent all year in Serie A2, going 3-2 with a 1.58 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 51 1/3 IP for Rosemar, the second team of the city of Grosseto. In the European Junior Championship, he was 2-0 with 10 1/3 scoreless innings of work, allowing only 4 hits and striking out 12. That helped earn him a spot on the senior national team for the
2007 Baseball World Cup
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. He pitched four scoreless innings, allowing 3 hits and a walk while striking out two and being second on Italy in ERA;
Junior Oberto also allowed no earned runs while pitching more innings. He debuted for Italy in a major victory, a 6-2 win over
Team USA; it was the first Italian win over America in 21 years and the first time Italy had ever beaten a US team using professional players. More meaningfully, it was the only loss for a US team that won Gold, beating Cuba for the first time ever. Panerati entered the game in the 5th inning, relieving
Roberto Corradini with a 6-2 lead. Panerati retired two of three batters with one walk and one strikeout before giving way to
Cody Cillo
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. A day later, the 17-year-old southpaw threw 2 1/3 innings of one-hit ball, striking out against
Panama in a 6-0 loss. He pitched one inning against the
Mexico national team
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Mexico has qualified to seventeen World Cups and has qualified consec ...
, allowing two hits.
Panerati signed with the
Cincinnati Reds
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for 2008, going to minor league
spring training
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, returning to Italy to finish high school, then beginning his professional career. In the
2008 European Cup, he went six scoreless innings for a win for the host
Bbc Grosseto
The Grosseto Baseball Club is a baseball franchise based in the city of Grosseto, Tuscany in Italy, which was founded in 1952.
History
Grosseto BBC was previously a franchise in Italy's top professional competition, the Italian Baseball League. G ...
over the
Mainz Athletics.
Panerati made his minor league debut on 26 July with a scoreless inning of relief for the
GCL Reds
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against the
GCL Twins, retiring all 3 batters he faced. Luca went 1-0 with a 2.84 ERA in 10 games for the GCL Reds that year.
In 2009, Panerati fell to 3-7, 5.96 as a starter for the
Billings Mustangs
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; he walked only 14 in 71 innings but gave up a .302 average. He tied for third in the
Pioneer League in losses and tied for 5th in hits allowed (89).
In 2012, he played for
Fortitudo Baseball Bologna
Fortitudo Baseball 1953, commonly referred to as Fortitudo Bologna, also known as UnipolSai Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a baseball club based in Bologna that competes in Serie A1 (baseball), Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league.
...
in the
Italian Baseball League. In the regular season, he had 13 starts, with a 7-3 record, 2.57 ERA and .222 opposing batting average.
They won the
2012 Final Four and became European Champions.
As a member of
Italy national baseball team he won the
2012 European Baseball Championship
The 2012 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament being held from September 7 to September 16, 2012. The Confederation of European Baseball selected the Netherlands to host the tournament.
Qualification
The follow ...
.
References
External links
Italian Baseball and Softball FederationIBAF site o
Mister Baseball o
2008 European Cup in Grosseto
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1989 births
2009 World Baseball Classic players
2013 World Baseball Classic players
2015 WBSC Premier12 players
2016 European Baseball Championship players
2017 World Baseball Classic players
Billings Mustangs players
Dayton Dragons players
Fortitudo Baseball Bologna players
Grosseto Baseball Club players
Gulf Coast Reds players
Italian expatriate baseball players in Japan
Italian expatriate baseball players in the United States
Living people
Unipol Bologna players