BOSTON (AP) — Former Portland Beaver Luis Tiant has died at the age of 83.

The charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup was known as “El Tiante.”

He pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame.

Major League Baseball announced his death in a post on X on Tuesday.

The Red Sox confirmed that he died at his home in Maine.

Tiant’s death comes one week after that of all-time baseball hits leader Pete Rose, whose Cincinnati Reds faced Tiant’s Red Sox in the 1975 World Series — still considered one of the greatest in baseball history.

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