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Scott Servais
Born: 1967

C 1991- Astros, Cubs, Giants, Rockies

Scott Servais's Teammates

GamesAverageHRRBI
Career 809.24463319
League DS 1.66700

Stats through the 2000 season

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» Astros Run Away From Giants from sfgate.com (4/14/99)
» Dusty goes with Servais again from sfgate.com (4/13/99)
» Giants could use Servais from sfgate.com (2/19/99)
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» Catcher Servais signs with Giants from sfgate.com (1/18/99)

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Back in the good old days of baseball, fathers taught their less-talented sons to be catchers, knowing there was always a shortage of quality backstops. A good gloveman and respected pitch-caller with a weak bat, Servais typified this age-old chestnut.

Servais broke into the majors with the Houston Astros in 1991 thanks to his ability to guard home, but the 'Stros ran out of patience with his anemic hitting and traded him to the Chicago Cubs with Luis Gonzalez for catcher Rick Wilkins in December 1999. With the Cubs he did enjoy a few good swings from 1995 to 1997, when he hit in the .270s and banged double-digit home runs in each season. But his hitting declined to .222 in 1998 and he spent the 1999-2000 seasons touring the west with the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies as a backup before landing back in Houston as the Astros' third-string catcher. Although he spent most of the 2001 season in the minors, he did manage to whack six hits in his 16 big-league at-bats.

Servais caught for the 1987 American team that won the silver medal in the Pan American Games and then followed that achievement with a gold medal performance for the 1988 Olympic Team. (EPW)


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FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
» June 28, 1995: The Cubs trade C Rick Wilkins to the Astros for OF Luis Gonzalez and C Scott Servais.

» August 18, 1995: In a slugfest at new Coors Field, the Cubs defeat the Rockies by a score of 26-7. A two 1/2 hour rain delay interrupted the contest which takes more than six hours to play. OF Luis Gonzalez drives home six runs for Chicago while Sammy Sosa goes 4-for-4, with four RBIs and four runs scored. Several ML records are tied by the Cubs: nine teammates each score two or more runs (Scott Servais and Sosa score 4, while Mark Grace plates 3); 14 Cubs hit safely, and 26 RBIs (ties the National League mark) are collected. The Cubs now have scored 20 or more runs 39 times, extending their ML record. Kevin Foster pitches the first three innings for Chicago, allowing only a Andres Galarraga homer before departing to rest with the Cubs up 9–1. Anthony Young picks up an easy win with one 1/3 innings of relief.

» May 11, 1996: At John Franco Day at Shea Stadium, the veteran reliever celebrates by being ejected in the 5th inning following a vicious benches-clearing brawl between the Mets and the Cubs. The brawl, which lasts 18 minutes, starts when Mets' P Pete Harnisch reaches around ump Greg Bonin to punch Cubs' C Scott Servais. There are nine ejections, including Servais and Harnisch, who will receive an eight game suspension and a $1,000 fine for his punch. Mets bullpen coach Steve Swisher, also ejected, will get a 2-game suspension. Fortunately for the Mets, Rico Brogna was only punched, and he hits back with his 2nd homer, to win, 7–6 in the 9th inning. Brogna adds a triple and double on the afternoon. In 1996, National League umps will toss 101 players, a decrease of 11 tosses from 1995; American League umps will eject 75 during the year, down from 93 in 1995.

» July 16, 1997: At Shea, RF Sammy Sosa's running catch with the bases loaded in the seventh, and catcher Scott Servais's pickoff in the eighth, key Chicago to a 6–5 win over the Mets. Before the game, New York reassigns general manager Joe McIlvaine and replaces him with his assistant, Steve Phillips.

» July 17, 2001: Indians P Bartolo Colon is ejected from Cleveland's 10–4 win over Houston after throwing a pitch near the head of Astros C Scott Servais, which actually hits his bat. Colon will be suspended six games for his actions.