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{{short description|American baseball player (born 1950)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Pat Darcy
|position=[[Pitcher]]
|image=Pat Darcy Reds.jpg
|bats=Left
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1950|5|12}}
|birth_place=[[Troy, Ohio]], U.S.
|death_date=
|death_place=
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 12
|debutyear=1974
|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=June 13
|finalyear=1976
|finalteam=Cincinnati Reds
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Win–loss record (pitching)|Win–loss record]]
|stat1value=
|stat2label=[[Earned run average]]
|stat2value=4.15
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*[[World Series]] champion ({{wsy|1975}})
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'''Patrick Leonard Darcy''' (born May 12, 1950) is an American former professional [[baseball]] player. He played his entire career in [[Major League Baseball]] as a right-handed [[pitcher]] for the [[Cincinnati Reds]] from {{By|1974}} through {{By|1976}}. Darcy was a member of the Reds team known as [[The Big Red Machine]] that won two consecutive World Series championships in {{wsy|1975}} and {{wsy|1976}}.
Signed as an amateur free agent in 1969 by the [[Houston Astros]], Darcy came to the Cincinnati Reds organization in 1974 when he was exchanged for [[Denis Menke]].
Darcy is best known as the pitcher who gave up [[Carlton Fisk]]'s [[walk-off home run]] in Game 6 of the [[1975 World Series]].
Darcy was born near Dayton, Ohio. His family relocated to [[Tucson, Arizona]], when he was a small child, and he considers Tucson his hometown; Darcy was a standout high school outfielder and pitcher for [[Rincon High School]]. Before becoming a professional pitcher, he attended and played for [[Mesa Community College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/c416738e|title=Pat Darcy {{!}} Society for American Baseball Research|website=sabr.org|access-date=2019-04-20}}</ref> Darcy returned to Tucson after his major league career, earning his degree at the [[University of Arizona]], starting his family, becoming active in the real estate industry and various aspects of local civic life. Darcy hosted local sports talk radio programs, ran for mayor of Tucson twice,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2011/03/16/whos-pat-darcy-and-does-he-want-to-be-mayor|title=Who's Pat Darcy? And Does He Want To Be Mayor?|last=Nintzel|first=Jim|website=Tucson Weekly|language=en|access-date=2019-04-20}}</ref> and drew upon his connections and relationships in Major League Baseball to help bring the [[Colorado Rockies]] to Tucson in 1993 as a spring training team. Darcy was inducted into the Pima County (Arizona) Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and is currently the president of the organization.
==References==
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==External links==
{{Baseballstats |mlb=113049 |espn= |br=d/darcypa01 |fangraphs=|brm=darcy-001pat}}
{{1975 Cincinnati Reds}}
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