Luke Brandon Scott (born June 25, 1978 in De Leon
Springs, Florida) is a major league baseball
outfielder who currently plays for the Baltimore
Orioles.
For his career, Scott has a batting average of .291.
He attended Oklahoma State University-Stillwater
where he earned All-Big 12 Conference baseball
honors. In the summer of 2000, he played for the
Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
He also played baseball at Indian River Community
College. Luke spent a winter playing for a
Venezuelan League where he earned the nickname "el
monstruo de cuadrangular" which translates to "The
Home run Monster". He spent his first professional
season in 2001 at home recovering from a "Tommy
John" operation on his elbow joint.
Luke Scott became the first Astros' rookie to hit
for the cycle, while also becoming possibly the
first player in Major League Baseball history to
accomplish a "reverse natural cycle" (home run,
triple, double and single, in that order) on July
28, 2006. It is difficult to prove whether he was
actually the first player to do so because the
league only recognizes natural cycles as single,
double, triple, home run. They do not consider the
reverse order as a natural cycle. That feat also
marked Scott's first career home run. After the
completion of the 2007 season Luke will head to
Venezuela to play another season in the Winter
League.
Scott was traded to the Orioles as part of the trade
for Miguel Tejada.
