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Mark Loretta found out about his, ahem, historic put within this year's League Championship Series a similar way everybody else did -- on Twitter.And at the beginning, it was difficult for him to imagine it."My wife's, like, 'You think that is correct?'" Loretta claimed.Turns out, it had been. Loretta, one among more than 10,000 players to at any time don a significant League uniform, would be the just one that has played for all four teams that happen to be neverthele s alive in the postseason this calendar year.Online video: Mark Loretta talks playoffs on High HeatThat's suitable, mates. Loretta, inside of a 15-year job, was a Brewer, an Astro, a Dodger and also a Pink Sox. No other participant, living or otherwise, holds this kind of difference.The moment this obscure stat started out circulating all around the social networking sphere on Wednesday, Loretta's telephone started buzzing. Text me sages trickled in, several from folks he hadn't spoken to in a while.Online video: COL@HOU: Loretta hits two-run walk-off house runCurious with regards to the stat, and nervous to see if it absolutely was actual, Loretta sent a me sage to his good friend Matt Vasgersian, a studio host at MLB Community along with the play-by-play announcer for ESPN Sunday Evening Baseball."I claimed, 'Matty, this would seem inaccurate,'" Loretta recalled. "'Can you've got your men verify on it?' One hour afterwards, he texted back again, 'Verified.'"Tweet from @ckamka: 4 teams remaining:Crimson Sox, Astros, Dodgers & Brewers.A single participant in MLB history performed for all 4 of those teams. Mark Loretta.Gamers who have long Key League careers tend to have multiple teams Justin Turner Jersey listed on the backs of their baseball cards by the time they retire, so Loretta wasn't all that shocked that he happened to have performed for all four teams involved from the LCS.He's just surprised that he's the only real a person Yasmani Grandal Jersey ."Especially in this day and age," Loretta reported. "It's not like these groups are expansion groups."Loretta was originally a Brewers Draft pick, selected in the seventh round in 1993. He played for Milwaukee from 1995-2002, before joining the Astros mid-season. He played for the Padres from '03-05, the Red Sox in '06, returned to Houston for the '07-08 seasons and ended his vocation with the Dodgers in '09.Given that nearly a decade has pa sed since was an active participant, Loretta was amused that he ended up as a trivia question while in the middle of October. Now a special a sistant from the Padres' front office, Loretta, who performed in two postseasons -- with the Padres in 2005 and the Dodgers in '09 -- admitted this has been a fun couple of days."I performed for five groups, and 4 out of five are inside the playoffs," he stated. "It's cool. I've heard from individuals that I don't keep in regular contact with, and I saw it on Twitter, which is fun."Video: ATL@MIL: Loretta hits solo homer off MillwoodUnprompted, Loretta rattled off at least a single fond memory he had playing for each playoff workforce. Milwaukee, his to start with organization, was like "your to start with love," he stated. A lot of the support staff when he played there -- trainers, clubhouse workers, the traveling secretary, broadcaster Bob Uecker -- are still with them. He's good friends with their manager, Craig Counsell, and their bench coach, Pat Murphy. So yes, he has perhaps the softest spot for the Brewers.When with the Astros, Loretta witne sed Hall of Famer Craig Biggio's 3,000th hit in 2007 and formed a bond with a veteran Houston contigent that named itself the Five Wise Men. Loretta, Darin Erstad, Geoff Blum, Jose Cruz Jr. and Brad Ausmus were, Loretta described, a band of brothers "not often needed, but always ready."In Boston, Loretta experienced certainly one of his favorite personal accomplishments -- he hit a walk-off homer on Patriots' Day, a celebratory holiday that starts with the Boston Marathon and continues with a late-morning 1st pitch at Fenway Park.Online video: SEA@BOS: Loretta hits walk-off property run"I was in Boston just one year, but in terms of baseball, it absolutely was probably my favorite," Loretta stated. "The atmosphere at Fenway Park -- every game was like a playoff game."And finally, Loretta reflected on ending his job with the Dodgers, the group he rooted for as a kid growing up in southern California.Movie: 50 Greatest Moments: Loretta's game-winner in NLDS"Bill Ru sell, Ron Cey, Davey Lopes were a big deal to watch," Loretta reported. "So it Matt Kemp Jersey was form of fun to come full circle and participate in for them."As a baseball executive, Loretta's rooting interests these days rest solely with San Diego, and he will be watching the postseason through a somewhat neutral lens. But he suspects last year's World Collection participants, the Astros and Dodgers, may make it there again.He's not ruling out the po sibility of a surprise, though."You never know in baseball," Loretta stated. "But I don't expect two sweeps."