Pat Lynch

Patrick Robert Lynch

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 195 lb.
• School Quinnipiac University
• High School Ansonia High School

• Born June 27, 1978 in Toronto, ON Canada

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Biographical Information

Pitcher Pat Lynch played four years of minor league baseball. Undrafted out of college, he began his career in the Toronto Blue Jays organization in 1997 with the Medicine Hat Blue Jays. He went 3-3 with a 5.26 ERA. Back with Medicine Hat the following summer, he went 7-3 and led the Pioneer League with a 2.32 ERA while tying for second in wins, one behind Nial Hughes and Scott Cassidy. Cassidy beat him out for the league's All-Star right-handed pitcher award. Baseball America named him the loop's #8 prospect, between Bobby Madritsch and Jorge Nunez

He began the next year with the Hagerstown Suns, going 10-5 with a save and a 3.52 ERA for the team before being dealt as the player to be named later to the Colorado Rockies in a one-for-one trade for Brian McRae in August. He had a 1-1, 3.00 record for the Asheville Tourists after the deal. For the season, he tied Pasqual Coco, Travis Hughes, Greg Kubes, Carlos Silva and Rene Vega for 8th in the South Atlantic League in wins.

He did not play in 2000 due to injury but appeared in 4 games for the Tri-City Dust Devils in 2001 (1-0, 2.00). In one of those appearances, on August 8th, he combined with Kip Bouknight to throw a perfect game against the Boise Hawks; Lynch worked the final three innings. It was the first nine-inning perfecto in Northwest League history.

He finished his career 22-12 with two saves and a 3.38 ERA in 56 games (45 starts). In 287 2/3 IP, he allowed 280 hits, walked only 64 and struck out 241.