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{{Short description|American baseball player (born 1976)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name             = Jeremy Cummings
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| fullname         = Jeremy Michael Cummings
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|November 7, 1976}}
| birth_place      = [[Charleston, West Virginia]], U.S.
| headercolor      = lightsteelblue
| show-medals      = yes
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[baseball]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Baseball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]] | [[Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics|Team]] }}
}}

'''Jeremy Michael Cummings''' (born November 7, 1976) is a [[minor league]] [[right-handed]] [[pitcher]] who last played in the [[Tampa Bay Rays]] organization in 2008. He was originally signed by the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in {{Baseball year|1999}}.

In his best minor league season he went a combined 12-4 record and 3.76 [[earned run average]] in 26 games (18 starts) between the Double-A [[Springfield Cardinals]] and Triple-A [[Memphis Redbirds]].

The following season, he was signed as a minor league free agent by the [[Philadelphia Phillies]], and assigned to their Triple-A affiliate, the [[Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons]]. In his final start of the season, he pitched a [[no hitter]].

He split the {{Baseball year|2007}} season between the [[Rochester Red Wings]] and [[Syracuse SkyChiefs]], the [[Minnesota Twins]] and [[Toronto Blue Jays]]' Triple-A affiliates respectively, before landing with the Rays in {{Baseball year|2008}}. At the [[All Star]] break, Cummings was 7-2 with a 2.82 ERA to earn himself an [[International League]] All Star nod. He only appeared in three games in the second half of the season before shutting it down in order to compete with the [[United States national baseball team]] at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]]. He and his team won the [[Bronze]] medal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Jeremy%20Cummings&pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=435398 |title=Minor League Baseball |accessdate=2008-08-27 |archive-date=2011-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519150752/http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Jeremy%20Cummings&pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=435398 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{United States baseball roster 2008 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1976 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Baseball players from West Virginia]]
[[Category:Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in baseball]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century American sportsmen]]


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