A famous Mexican baseball face from the 1980s made a rare appearance on the mound at the 2022 MLB All-Star Game held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Fernando “EL Toro” Valenzuela threw the game’s inaugural pitch, caught—appropriately—by Toronto Blue Jays’ Tijuana-born catcher Alexander Kirk.

Valenzuela, now 61, played for the Dodgers between 1980 ad 1990, recording a win-loss record of 173-153. A six-time All-Star, he was an integral part of the Dodgers 1981 World Series title winning team, the year in which he also won the Cy Young Award and was named Rookie of the Year. In latter years, he played for several other MLB teams, including the San Diego Chargers from 1995-1997, without replicating his success of the early 1980s. In 1992, Valenzuela was hired by the Charros de Jalisco, and pitched for most of that season in the Mexican Baseball League, before signing with the Orioles in 1993.

The youngest of 12 children, Valenzuela was born to a humble family in Etchohuaquila, a small town in the state of Sonora. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2015.