Chris Brock
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Terrence Christopher Brock (February 5, 1970 in Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
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), is a retired Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
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 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
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

, 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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