César Gutiérrez

César Dario Gutiérrez (January 26, 1943 – January 22, 2005), also nicknamed "Cocoa", was a Venezuelan shortstop in Major League Baseball who played with the San Francisco Giants (1967, 1969) and Detroit Tigers (1969?1971).

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Gutiérrez was born in Coro, Falcón State. He was a career .235 hitter with 26 RBI and no home runs in 223 games.

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Gutiérrez's most productive season came in , his only season as a regular, when he posted career-highs in batting average (.243), RBI (22), runs (40), hits (101), doubles (11), triples (6), stolen bases (4) and games played (135). On June 21, in the second game of a doubleheader between Detroit and the Cleveland Indians, Gutiérrez hit a perfect 7-for-7 including a triple, to set an American League mark (and tie a major league record) for hits in a game without making an out. The Tigers won 9?8 in twelve innings. Gutiérrez's batting average went up 31 points that day, from .218 to .249.

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