Benjamín Heredia

Benjamín Heredia

• Born August 13, 1962

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Biographical Information

Benjamín Heredia played for the Dominican national team that won Bronze in the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games. In the 1991 Pan American Games, he hit .429/~.478/.619 in the round-robin phase with 6 runs in 6 games. He was 7th in average, between Jorge Aranzamendi and Lourdes Gourriel Sr.. The Dominican Republic fell just shy of another Bronze, losing in 15 innings to Team USA.

Heredia was the primary Dominican first baseman in the 1992 Olympics, though Jose Veras also played several games. Heredia hit .250/.250/.438 with two runs and three RBI in five games while fielding .979. All four of his hits (including a homer off Fulvio Valle) came in a 7-5 Dominican win over Italy. In the 1994 Baseball World Cup, his batting line was .261/.320/.261 with no runs and one RBI in seven games as the starting first baseman for the Dominican Republic; he had 60 putouts, 2 assists and no errors.