BIOGRAPHY
Luis Garcia was born December 13, 1996, in Bolivar, Venezuela. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
García signed with the Houston Astros as an international free agent on July 2, 2017. He spent the 2017-2019 seasons in the Astros minor league system with the DSL Astros, Quad Cities River Bandits, Tri-City ValleyCats, and Fayetteville Woodpeckers.
García was called up to the majors for the first time on August 29, 2020. He made his major league debut on September 4, 2020, against the Los Angeles Angels.
In 2020 he was 0-1 with a 2.92 ERA in 12.1 innings over the course of five games (one start). García made his postseason debut and started Game 5 of the 2020 American League Championship Series against the Tampa Bay Rays. He pitched two scoreless innings as the Astros went on to win this game.
On May 6, 2022, García matched a career-high with nine strikeouts versus the Detroit Tigers, going seven innings, allowing two hits, one earned run, and earning the win in a 3–2 final score. He retired the final 15 batters faced and, at one point, five consecutive via strikeout. On May 29, García retired the first 13 Seattle Mariners batters until a walk to Eugenio Suárez and did not allow the first hit until Luis Torrens singled leading off the sixth inning as the Astros eventually won, 2–1.
On June 15, García authored an immaculate inning in the second inning versus the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field, striking out Nathaniel Lowe, Ezequiel Durán, and Brad Miller. Five innings later, teammate Phil Maton struck out the same trio of batters en route to his own immaculate inning, making this the first occasion in the major leagues of two immaculate innings pitched both in the same game and on the same date. García's immaculate inning was the eighth in team history. On June 30, he led a 2–1 win over the New York Yankees with one run allowed over 5+1⁄2 innings, three hits and six strikeouts.
On July 12, García allowed one hit in six scoreless innings to the Los Angeles Angels, retiring the final 13 batters while striking out seven. The one hit allowed was a career low through his first 45 major league starts. His sixth quality start of the season, it was the 17th consecutive produced on the road by Houston pitching. Per an AT&T SportsNet broadcast, that extended the longest streak in franchise history, exceeding the 1972 club (14). In a September 3 start versus Los Angeles, García tossed seven innings and allowed one run as Houston fell 2–1 in extra innings. On September 19, García started the first five innings and won a 4–0 shutout of the Tampa Bay Rays to clinch a fifth American League West division title for the Astros over the previous six seasons. In his final start of the regular season on October 2, García was the winning pitcher with one run allowed over six innings versus Tampa Bay, culminating a 7–0 record and 3.20 ERA over his last eight starts. His seven wins from August 12 onward led the AL.
In the third game of the 2022 ALDS, García earned the win after working the final five innings of a series-clinching sweep of the Mariners. The game had remained scoreless for an unprecedented 17 innings—the longest scoreless period in postseason history—until rookie Jeremy Peña homered in the top of the 18th to eventually win it for the Astros, 1–0.
The Astros advanced to the World Series and defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to give García his first career World Series title.
