Matt Keough
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Matthew Lon Keough (born July 3, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player.
He appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1977 to 1986, for the Oakland Athletics (1977–1983), New York Yankees (1982) and the Houston Astros (1986) from 1977 to 1986.
Keough was battered and threw right-handed.
In 1973, he was recruited by the Oakland A's out of Corona del Mar High School.
Personal life
Keough was the nephew of Joe Keough and Marty Keough's uncle, both of whom also played in the major leagues.
In 1984, Keough was married to actress Jeana Tomasino, the month's Playboy Playmate of the Month, but the pair later broke apart. The two appeared on reality television on The Real Housewives of Orange County. Shane, Kara, and Colton were three children of the couple. Shane, the Oakland Athletics' third-generation professional baseball player, has been to the Stockton Ports, a Class A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, before being released in 2010. Kyle Bosworth, Kara's daughter, married NFL quarterback Kyle Bosworth.
In 2005, Keough was sentenced to 180 days in prison for driving under the influence of alcohol but not in 2008 for driving under the influence.
Keough died in California on May 1, 2020 at the age of 64. Jeana, his ex-wife, confirmed that the cause of his death was a pulmonary embolism.
Career
In 1973, Keough graduated from Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California. In the seventh round of the 1973 Major League Baseball draft, the Oakland Athletics selected Keough.
Keough was signed as an infielder by Oakland. He was supposed to replace departed Sal Bando at third base in 1975, but after playing for Modesto in his second year of professional baseball in 1975, he was hit a disappointing.210 in Double-A. He was converted to a pitcher and joined Oakland a year later. Despite his 8-15 record, he was chosen to the All-Star Game for the 1978 Athletics in his rookie season. He tied a major league record by losing his first 14 decisions and ending with a 2–17 record. His winning percentage of.105 was the lowest figure for a major league pitcher with 15 or more decisions since 1916, when Philadelphia A's teammates Jack Nabors and Tom Sheehan finished the season with winning percentages of.048 and.059, respectively. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Keough went 28 straight starts without winning, including Cliff Curtis (1910–11) for the longest streak in MLB history. Jo-Jo Reyes (2008–11) tied the streak.
However, Keough was recalled in 1980 with a record of 16-13, earning AL Comeback Player of the Year awards. He was 10–6 in 1981, helping Oakland to clinch the AL Division Series for the first time. In Game Three of the AL Championship Series, he pitched well, giving up one earned run in 8+13 innings in a game won by the New York Yankees 4–0.
In 1982, Keough threw in 18 losses against 11 victories in 34 starts, tying for the AL lead. He walked more batters than he struck out (101-to-75) and led the league in home runs (38) and earned runs (133), which was allowed. Several baseball historians and statisticians have attributed the manager Billy Martin's overworking Keough and the other 1981 rotation players. In 2006, Rob Neyer estimated that Keough threw 131 pitches per complete game, a heavy workload for a young pitcher even then.
The Oaklands traded Keough to the New York Yankees for Marshall Brant and Ben Callahan in the 1983 mid-season. He spent parts of two seasons in the minors and then returned to the majors with the St. Louis Cardinals late in 1985, nursing a sore arm. He divided his playing time between Triple-A, the Houston Astros, and the Chicago Cubs this year. He played for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball from 1987 and 1990, and he continued to play for them until 1990. In 1991 spring training with the California Angels, he attempted a comeback to the major leagues but did not make the roster. He appeared with the Angels in March 1992 and made the major league roster, but when sitting in the dugout during an exhibition game in which he was later scheduled to pitch, he was critically injured and ending his playing career.
Keough worked with the A's and Angels both as a traveling pitching coach and as an executive from 1992 to 1999. After that, he scouted for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and was also an executive for the Oakland Athletics.
Keough would occasionally throw a spitball. His spitball backfired on him one time, but it didn't come back to him. Jerry Remy, the Boston Red Sox's second baseman, threw a spitball that had clearly been struck out when Keough threw it out. Remy had fouled off the pitch, causing the umpire to be adamant, so he stayed at bat with two strikes. Remy scored a home run on the next pitch, the last of his career.
Keough had a 58-84 record with 590 strikeouts and a 4.17 ERA in 1190 innings pitched, including seven shutouts and 57 complete games.