Rawlins Jackson "Rawly" Eastwick (born October 24, 1950), is an American former

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, who played in

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(MLB) for the

Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) National League Central, Central division and were a charter member of ...

, St. Louis Cardinals,

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one ...

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Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

, and

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, from to .

Career

Eastwick was born in

Camden, New Jersey Camden is a city in and the county seat of Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley metropolitan area and is located directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the 20 ...

, and grew up in

Haddonfield, New Jersey :''Not the fictional Illinois town from the Halloween film series.'' Haddonfield is a borough located in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a total population of 11,593,

, where he attended

Haddonfield Memorial High School Haddonfield Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Haddonfield, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary scho ...

. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the third round of the 1969 amateur draft. In 1973, he made it to the

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of the

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and made his major league debut in September 1974 with the Reds. He started back at Indianapolis in 1975 but pitched well and was called up for good. In his rookie season, he tied for the

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lead in saves with 22. In the 1975 World Series against the

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, Eastwick won Games 2 and 3 and also earned a save in Game 5 as the Reds won the series in seven. In Game 6 he gave up a three-run home run to Bernie Carbo that tied the game, which the Red Sox won in twelve innings. In 1976, Eastwick had his best season, going 11-5 in relief with a 2.06

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. He also led the league in saves and won the NL Fireman of the Year award."Rawley Eastwick Biography"
. ''baseballlibrary.com''. Retrieved 2010-11-1. The Reds won their second consecutive

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title. Eastwick was dealt to the Cardinals for Doug Capilla at the

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on June 15, 1977 as a result of a contract dispute with Reds management. His desire to become a

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by not signing a contract with any team for the remainder of the season precluded him from being sent to the

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in the Tom Seaver trade. Eastwick signed a five-year, $1.2 million deal with the Yankees at the Winter Meetings on December 9, 1977. He joined a bullpen which already had Sparky Lyle, Dick Tidrow and

Goose Gossage Richard Michael "Goose" Gossage (born July 5, 1951) is an American former baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1972 and 1994. He pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New Y ...

who had signed for $2.7 million two weeks earlier. Eastwick's time with the Yankees lasted until the day before the trade deadline on June 14, 1978 when he was sent to the

for

Jay Johnstone John William Johnstone Jr. (November 20, 1945 – September 26, 2020) was an American professional baseball player and television sports announcer. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1966 to 1985 for the California Angel ...

and Bobby Brown.Eichel, Larry & Livingston, Bill. "The locker-room clearance," ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', Thursday, June 15, 1978.
Retrieved October 22, 2020 He spent two seasons with the Phillies, posting a 4.90 ERA in 1979 and was released. He then pitched for the Kansas City Royals in 1980 and the Chicago Cubs in 1981 before retiring.

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at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
Rawly Eastwick
at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League) {{DEFAULTSORT:Eastwick, Rawly 1950 births Living people Baseball players from Camden, New Jersey Chicago Cubs players Cincinnati Reds players Florida Instructional League Reds players Gulf Coast Reds players Haddonfield Memorial High School alumni Indianapolis Indians players Kansas City Royals players Major League Baseball pitchers National League saves champions New York Yankees players Omaha Royals players People from Haddonfield, New Jersey People from West Newbury, Massachusetts Philadelphia Phillies players Raleigh-Durham Triangles players Sportspeople from the Delaware Valley Sportspeople from Essex County, Massachusetts St. Louis Cardinals players Tampa Tarpons (1957–1987) players Tigres de Aragua players American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela Trois-Rivières Aigles players

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