Billy Bates

Quick Facts

Full Name	Billy Bates
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Dec 7, 1963(1963-12-07)
Age	61
Birthplace	Houston
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Billy Bates Biography

Billy Bates is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on December 7, 1963 in Houston, Texas, United States. Pinch player who scored the game-winning run during that second match of the World Series and went on to take the series victory together with his team, the Cincinnati Reds.

The All-Star center fielder All-Star right fielder Paul O’Neill was his teammate on the Reds. was his teammate for the Reds.

William Derrick Bates (born December 7, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman and pinch runner who played for the Milwaukee Brewers and the 1990 World Series champion Cincinnati Reds. In 29 career games, Bates had a batting average of .125 with six hits, two runs batted in (RBI), 11 runs, ten strikeouts, and eight stolen bases. Though defensively he played as a second baseman, the Reds primarily used Bates as a pinch runner. After he scored the winning run in Game 2 of the 1990 World Series, Bates never played in MLB again.

Bates enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, and played baseball in his first year there. The 1983 Longhorns finished with a 61–14 win–loss record and were ranked as the number one team in the nation by Collegiate Baseball Magazine. To determine which team would represent the Central Regional in the College World Series, the Longhorns played against the Mississippi State Bulldogs; the Longhorns defeated the Bulldogs and advanced to the World Series. Though the World Series followed a double-elimination format, the Longhorns never lost and defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide 4–3 to win the championship. After the Series, Bates was named to the World Series All-Tournament team, composed of the best players from the series. Writers for Baseball America named him to their honorary Freshman All-America team.

His birthplace was Houston, Texas.

Billy Bates Net Worth

Billy Bates is one of the richest Baseball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Billy Bates 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Aldine High School in Texas.

He was a player for his club, the Milwaukee Brewers in 1989 and the 1990 season.

Bates was born on December 7, 1963, in Houston, Texas, and attended Aldine High School. When the Philadelphia Phillies selected him in the 8th round of the 1982 MLB draft, Bates became the second player ever to be drafted out of Aldine. Instead of signing a professional contract with the Phillies, Bates chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin.

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In a Brewer’s spring training game in early March, Bates committed two errors against the Chicago Cubs in the top of the 11th inning, as the Cubs scored the winning run without recording a hit, but his 4th-inning single scored two runs. He was again cut from the MLB roster prior to the start of the 1988 season, as Milwaukee manager Tom Trebelhorn named Paul Molitor their starting second baseman. Now in Triple-A, Bates had a five RBI game against the Iowa Cubs on April 12 in a Zephyrs’ victory. Hindered throughout the season by a leg injury, Bates hit .258 with 29 stolen bases, a loss of 22 from a season ago, as the Zephyrs finished 72–62; it was the first time in Bates’ professional career that a team he played for missed the playoffs.

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Billy Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Billy Bates celebrates birthday on December 7 of every year.

In the 1990 National League Championship Series, the Reds faced the Pittsburgh Pirates in a best-of-seven game series. In Game 1, the Reds, the home team, opened up a 3–0 lead but trailed 4–3 as the game entered the bottom of the ninth inning. Todd Benzinger led off the inning with a pinch-hit single against Bob Patterson. Patterson walked the next batter, Eric Davis, but forced an out at third base when Ron Oester tried to sacrifice Davis over. Manager Lou Piniella put Bates into the game as a pinch runner for Oester. Davis, at second, tried to steal third, and Bates followed; while Davis was safe, Pirates catcher Mike LaValliere threw to second and Bates was out by three feet, which made the second out in the inning. Speaking about himself, Bates said he thought he “had a better jump than [he] did”, and added that he should not have attempted the steal. The Reds failed to score that inning and lost the game. Bates’ next postseason appearance came in Game 3, when he pinch ran for Joe Oliver and scored a run as the Reds won 6–3. Cincinnati ultimately defeated the Pirates and moved on to the World Series, where they would play the Oakland Athletics for the league championship.