Kurt Ainsworth

Kurt Ainsworth

Infobox MLB retired
name=Kurt Ainsworth
position=Pitcher
bats=Left
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1978|9|9
deathdate=
debutdate=September 5
debutyear=by|2001
debutteam=San Francisco Giants
finaldate=May 14
finalyear=by|2004
finalteam=Baltimore Orioles
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=6-8
stat2label=Earned run average
stat2value=5.19
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=90
teams=
*San Francisco Giants (by|2001-by|2003)
*Baltimore Orioles (by|2003-by|2004)
highlights=

Kurt Harold Ainsworth (born September 9, 1978 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles and went to Louisiana State University.

High school career

Kurt Ainsworth attended Catholic High in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a senior, he was a first team All-State selection, won the Student-Athlete Award, and was named a Catholic High Man of the Year. After his senior baseball season, he played in the Louisiana All-Star game.

Professional career

After playing collegiately for Louisiana State University, Ainsworth was made the first-round draft pick (24th overall) of the San Francisco Giants in the 1999 MLB amateur draft. He signed with the Giants and finished the 1999 season with the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Class A Northwest League, where he started 10 games and accumulated a record of 3-3 and an ERA of 1.61.

He spent the by|2000 season with the Shreveport Captains of the Texas League. At the age of 21, he was the same age as many of the players in rookie leagues, but he went 10-9 with an ERA of 3.30 and 130 strikeouts in 158 innings in the Class AA Texas League. This earned him a promotion to the Class AAA Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League in by|2001. Although he again went 10-9 at Fresno, his ERA in 27 games was 5.07; nevertheless, he was still called up to the Major Leagues and made two relief appearances for the Giants in 2001.

The by|2002 season was a more successful one for Ainsworth. He again spent much of the season with Fresno, but with better results; his ERA in 19 starts there was 3.41, and his record for the season was 8-6. He made six appearances (four starts) for the Giants during the season; although his record for the Giants was just 1-2, his ERA in 25 2/3 innings was 2.10, and he struck out 15 batters.

Just as Ainsworth's career was looking very promising, it started falling prey to serious arm injuries in by|2003. He began the season in the Giants' starting rotation and made 11 starts for them; he went 5-4 with an ERA of 3.82 in 66 innings pitched. On June 3, 2003, he was placed on the disabled list with inflammation in his shoulder. He made a rehabilitation appearance with Fresno on June 15, but lasted just two innings; later in the month, doctors found that his shoulder blade was broken, an extremely unusual injury for a pitcher. On July 31, the trading deadline, the Giants traded him and Damian Moss to the Baltimore Orioles for Sidney Ponson. He was not activated from the disabled list until September 20, and he appeared in just three games for the Orioles in 2003, pitching 2 1/3 innings in relief and accumulating an 0-1 record with an 11.57 ERA.

Ainsworth recovered in time to start the by|2004 season with the Orioles, but he made only seven starts before the Orioles demoted him to the Class AAA Ottawa Lynx. He pitched only four innings for the Lynx before he went on the disabled list again with right elbow inflammation; he was out until mid-August, and he finished the season by making two rehab starts for the Orioles's short-season Class A club, the Aberdeen IronBirds.

Ainsworth made two appearances for the Orioles in spring training in by|2005. In three innings, he allowed five runs, for an ERA of 15.00, and his record was 0-1. He was sidelined beginning in spring training with what he would find out was a torn labrum and a torn rotator cuff. He considered retirement but underwent shoulder surgery in late March; he was hoping for a return in the by|2006 season, but did not succeed.

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