Giovanni Carrara Jim�nez [car-RAH-ra] is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He most recently pitched in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Carrara bats and throws right-handed. He established himself as a valuable middle relief man in MLB, but is a starter in Italy. A failed starter in MLB, he converted to an effective long reliever. Carrara has a 90?92 MPH fastball. He also throws a couple of breaking balls: a deceptive slow curve, as his off-speed pitch, and a hard one that is somewhere between a slider and cut fastball. He controls the running game as well, with a good move to both first base and second, and a quick delivery to the plate. On August 15, 2001, Carrara combined with fellow Venezuelan pitchers Omar Daal, Kelvim Escobar, and Freddy Garc�a to win their respective starts: Carrara, of the Dodgers, facing Montreal, 13?1; Daal, in a Phillies victory over the Brewers, 8?6; Escobar, of the Blue Jays, over Oakland, 5?2, and Garc�a, of Seattle, against the Red Sox, 6?2. This marked the first time in major league history that four pitchers coming from Venezuela have recorded a winning game in their respective starts in the same day. 

March 4th, 1968 in El Tigre (Age 56)