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R.A. Dickey

Mike Nickeas, Jeremy Hefner, Scott Hairston

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  • Dickey shuts down punchless Padres

    May 2006. Johan Santana pitched a four-hitter Saturday. He and Dickey combined in August 2010 for New York's last set of shutouts. Dickey needed a bit of help to finish this one. Tim Byrdak got two outs to finish the eighth and Frank Francisco pitched the   Read more »

  • Eventful day for R.A. Dickey

    -- Along with everything else, R.A. Dickey did manage to do a little pitching, too.It was not his best, but it was good enough to improve his record to 5-1 and get credit for the Mets ' 9-3 win Saturday over the Marlins. The best part of his day was that he   Read more »

  • David Wright's big day leads Mets over Marlins

    conferring with pitching coach Dan Warthen and then with catcher Mike Nickeas and bench coach Bob Geren (a former catcher), Dickey came up with the bases loaded and two out. Nolasco was struggling, having walked three batters in the first and just having hit   Read more »

  • R.A. Dickey pitches 8 strong in Mets win

    launched a shot to the warning track in left - a very long out - but Frank Francisco finished up for his seventh save.Dickey retired the first 10 batters he faced, and with an especially frisky knuckleball, seemed to be a real threat to throw the franchise's   Read more »

  • Mets fall to Astros, but April is a winner

    in Houston when they topped the Astros in an epic 16-inning Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS at the Astrodome.Back to Monday night. Dickey allowed a pair of walks in the second inning and struck out six over the first five innings. The knuckleball was dancing.But Bud   Read more »

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About R.A. Dickey

Robert Alan "R. A." Dickey (born October 29, 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. He was previously with the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers organizations. Prior to that, Dickey was with the Texas Rangers organization without interruption since being drafted in 1996. In the majors, Dickey has had limited success as a starting pitcher, and has since made the transition to becoming a knuckleball pitcher.

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