{"id":7219,"date":"2010-08-11T15:27:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2010-08-11T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T22:27:55","slug":"touring-the-bases-with-brent-mayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/touring-the-bases-with-brent-mayne\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring The Bases With…Brent Mayne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catcher Brent Mayne was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the first round (#13 overall) of the 1989 amateur draft and made his major league debut only a year later, rapping an RBI single off Twins pitcher Scott Erickson in his first major league at-bat.\u00c2\u00a0 Mayne spent 15 seasons in the big leagues with the Royals, Mets, A’s, Giants, Rockies, Royals (again), Diamondbacks and Dodgers before hangin’ ’em up for good in 2004.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until his final season that he finally made the postseason, hitting .333 with a .500 OBA in the NLCS for the Dodgers.\u00c2\u00a0 Mayne also earned a win on the mound on August 22, 2000 when he pitched the top of the 12th inning for the Colorado Rockies against the Atlanta Braves.\u00c2\u00a0 He allowed a single and a walk and threw a wild pitch, but retired the Braves without surrendering a run, then copped the victory when the winning run scored in the bottom of the 12th.<\/p>\n

Mayne is the author of the book, The Art of Catching: The Secrets and Techniques of Baseball’s Most Demanding Position<\/em> and has a website<\/a> by the same name.<\/p>\n

Click here to see a video of an interview we did with Brent Mayne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Catcher Brent Mayne was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the first round (#13 overall) of the 1989 amateur draft and made his major league debut only a year later, rapping an RBI single off Twins pitcher Scott Erickson in his first major league at-bat.\u00c2\u00a0 Mayne spent 15 seasons in the big leagues with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[4111,471,47,5095,822,2197,2726,532,1193,1159,792,1954,3910,2507,9764,9762,9763,9766,2121],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-touring-the-bases-with","tag-amateur-draft","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-bat","tag-brent-mayne","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-first-major-league","tag-giants","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-league-debut","tag-mets","tag-nlcs","tag-oba","tag-scott-erickson","tag-twins-pitcher","tag-victory","tag-wild-pitch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t