Candy Maldonado

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Candido Maldonado Guadarrama (born September 5, 1960 in Humacao, Puerto Rico) was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1981 to 1995 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays (twice), Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers. Maldonado was noted as a good home run hitter who did not usually hit for a high batting average. Interestingly, he played in eight different postseason series for three of his teams and won the World Series with the Blue Jays in 1992. He most recently could be found providing color commentary for ESPN Deportes' coverage of the World Baseball Classic.

[edit] San Francisco

Maldonado became one of very few players traded directly between the Dodgers and Giants when he was traded to San Francisco for Alex Treviño.

Although Maldonado had statistically good seasons in San Francisco, he is infamous as one of the most-hated Giants ever, largely due to Game 6 of the 1987 National League Championship Series, when he atrociously misplayed Tony Peña's 2nd inning pop-up, which should have been a routine out, and turned it into a triple. Peña scored on a sacrifice fly for the only run of the game, which the Cardinals won to tie the series at 3 games each, before going on to win Game 7, a game in which Atlee Hammaker joined Maldonado in the pantheon of hated Giants.