Joe Beimel

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**Joe Beimel**
Major League Baseball debut
Los Angeles Dodgers — No. 97
Relief pitcher
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
April 8, 2001 for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Selected MLB statistics (through July 13, 2006)
Wins	12
Strikeouts	168
Earned run average	4.96
Teams
Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays

Joseph Ronald Beimel (born April 19, 1977) is a relief pitcher for the Major League Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers.

[edit] High School/College Years

Beimel attended St. Mary's Area High School and was a letterman in football, wrestling, basketball, and baseball. He played two seasons of junior college baseball at Allegany College of Maryland (Cumberland, Md.) and one season at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He was drafted by the Texas Rangers after his freshman year in college and by the Pirates after his junior year. He is the fifth Major League Baseball player to come out of the Allegany College of Maryland program. The four other Allegany Trojans to make the big leagues were John Kruk, Stan Belinda, Steve Kline and Scott Seabol.

[edit] Trivia

In the 2006 season, he wore #97 for the Dodgers, which is the highest number ever used by the Dodgers in its history.
Before the 2006 divisional series between the Dodgers and Mets began, Beimel cut his hand on glass at a bar in New York. At first he claimed that it happened in his hotel room, before divulging the truth after the Dodgers lost to the mets three games to none. [1]