Batting average .228 Role Baseball player Home runs 5 Height 1.83 m | Runs batted in 28 Weight 91 kg Name Benny Distefano | |
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Benito James Distefano (born January 23, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros in the 1980s and with Navegantes del Magallanes in LVBP (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League) He is currently a minor league coach in the New York Mets organization.
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Distefano remains the most recent left-handed-throwing player to catch a major league game, catching in three separate games for the Pirates in 1989.
On April 28, 1992, David Cone of the New York Mets brought a no-hitter into the eighth inning. Distefano broke it up with an infield hit.
In 2010, Distefano was hired by the New York Mets to serve as the hitting coach for the Single A Brooklyn Cyclones. After serving as the hitting coach for the Class A St. Lucie Mets of the Florida State League for a few years, Distefano returned to Brooklyn for the 2014 season.
