Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Drew Butera was born August 9, 1983, in Evansville, Indiana. He is a catcher in the MLB.

Butera spent the latter part of the 2015 campaign as the backup for all-star catcher Salvador Pérez. In 2015 for the Royals he batted .198/.266/.267 with one home run and five RBIs in 86 at-bats. Butera played a role in the 8th-inning comeback in Game 4 of the 2015 ALDS against Houston (with the Royals down two games to one and facing elimination) after Perez was lifted for a pinch-runner earlier in the game. Beginning the inning down 6-2, the score by the time Butera came to the plate was 6-6. Butera was able to draw a 10-pitch walk with one out and two men on, enabling Alex Gordon to hit a sacrifice grounder in the following at-bat for the go-ahead and winning run. In the deciding game 5 of the 2015 World Series, Perez hit a single in the top of the 12th inning and was replaced by pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson, who went on to score the go-ahead run. As a result, Butera came out for the 12th inning and caught the game-winning strike from closer Wade Davis to clinch the championship for Kansas City.