Terrence Christopher Brock (February 5, 1970 in Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

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), is a retired Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 pitcher

Pitcher

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. He played six seasons in the majors from - for the Atlanta Braves

Atlanta Braves

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, San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

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, Philadelphia Phillies

Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

, and Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore Orioles

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. He also played one season in Japan for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp

Hiroshima Toyo Carp

The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda founder Jujiro Matsuda. Mazda is the largest single shareholder , which is less than the portion owned by the Matsuda family . Because of that,...

 in .

In the two year period Brock was with the Phillies, he complained to then Phillies GM Ed Wade that revered broadcaster Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas

Harry Norbert Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies...

 should not be allowed to fly in the back of the team's charter flights with the players. Wade actually asked Kalas to stop sitting in the back of the airplane, and Kalas complied for two days. However, he returned quickly, as the rest of the players loved having Kalas in the back of the plane.

In 2002

2002 Baltimore Orioles season

The 2002 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing 4th in the American League East with a record of 67 wins and 95 losses.-Offseason:...

, his only season with the Orioles, he went 2–1 with a 4.70 earned run average (ERA)

Earned run average

In baseball statistics, earned run average is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine...

 in 22 relief

Relief pitcher

A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...

 appearances. He was released on October 1, 2002.

A different Chris Brock is also a program center manager for RuffaloCODY.

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