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09-04-2007, 04:40 PM
If you thought his career was over, you couldn't have been more wrong. Dominican pitcher Pedro Martinez made his first major league appearance of the year at Shea Stadium yesterday and didn't disappoint. Martinez, who hadn't pitched since last September after undergoing career-threatening shoulder surgery, pitched five innings, giving up five hits and three runs and striking four on his way to his 3,000th career strikeout. Martinez is the 15th player in MLB history to reach this milestone and the first Dominican to do so. This has been a year for Dominican comebacks. Earlier this year outfielder Sammy Sosa, who many thought was out of baseball, came back and hit his 600th career homerun, consolidating his place in the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame.
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