three home runs were hit off of Wandy Rodríguez, Brian Lawrence, and Javier Vázquez. In 2008, he hit a career-high two homers as he again drove in 10 runs, this time in 59 at-bats. He belted his fourth home run on September 6, against Cincinnati's Gary Majewski at the Great American Ballpark. On September 22, he hit his first career grand slam, off of New York Mets rookie Jon Niese at Shea Stadium. That night he was also credited with five RBIs — four of which came with his grand slam — in a career-high performance. It was the first grand slam by a Jewish pitcher since Saul Rogovin of the Detroit Tigers hit one in 1950 off Eddie Lopat of the Yankees. In 441 at-bats through 2008, Marquis had a .206 career batting average, with 25 doubles, two triples, five home runs, 50 runs scored, 40 RBIs, 23 sacrifice hits, and a .306 slugging percentage — 9th-best of all pitchers with at least 100 at-bats. He had a .276 career batting average in 59 plate appearances with two outs and runners in scoring position. With the bases loaded, through August 2008 he was a career .364 batter, with a .500 on-base percentage and an .818 slugging percentage. In 26 at-bats as a pinch hitter, he had a .231 batting average. Summarizing his approach to hitting, Marquis said: "I'm not going up as a pitcher with a bat. I'm going up as a hitter." Marquis, after retiring after the 2015 season, posted a .196 batting average (130-for-663) with 66 runs, 35 doubles, two triples, five home runs, 57 RBI and 13 bases on balls. Fielding Marquis exhibited a better range factor at pitcher than the league average every year of his career, through 2009. He recorded a career .955 fielding percentage. Family Marquis and his wife, Debbie (née Masseria), have three children. See also List of Colorado Rockies team records List of select Jewish Major League Baseball players References External links Jews in Sports bio Jewish Major League career leaders "Jason Marquis pregame quotes: Game 4 pitcher talks about his approach to starting," MLB.com, 10/26/04 "The boys of summer and seder: Baseball, Passover share openers," 3/12/07 "Out loud with Jason Marquis; Cubs pitcher tells Our Guy about his role models, growing up in New York and his bar mitzvah," Chicago Tribune, September 24, 2007 "Warming up for the Jewish Boys