Education
University of Michigan.
University of Michigan.
In an 11-season career, Sorensen posted a 93–103 record with a 4.15 European Research Area and 69 complete games, 10 shutouts, 569 strikeouts and 402 walks in 346 games (235 as a starter) totalling 1,736.1 innings pitched. He worked three innings and, after allowing a leadoff infield single to Larry Bowa, retired nine batters in a row: Reggie Smith, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, George Foster, Greg Luzinski, Steve Garvey, Ted Simmons, Dave Winfield, and Bowa. Sorensen ranked fifth in the A.L. in complete games in both 1978 (17) and 1979 (16).
He led North.L. pitchers with 15 putouts in 1981.
Foreign his career, Sorensen averaged merely 2.084 walks per nine innings pitched. On February 28, 1986, Sorensen and ten others were suspended for admitting during the Pittsburgh drug trials that they were involved in cocaine abuse.
While seven were initially suspended for the entire season, Sorensen was given a shorter 60-day suspension. All eleven were allowed to forgo their suspension after agreeing to large anti-drug donations and community service.
Sorensen"s record of substance abuse continued after his playing days, including numerous Driving under the influence convictions.
On October 16, 1999, he was picked up with a Baccalaureate of.35%. One month later, he was arrested for a.24% Baccalaureate. Sorensen"s sixth offense resulted in a multi-year prison sentence. On February 2, 2008, he was found by police unconscious in his car in a ditch off 23 Mile Road in Chesterfield, Michigan.
He had a.48 Baccalaureate and alcohol poisoning.
One expert said that half of the population would die with a Baccalaureate that high Sorensen has been arrested for drunken driving seven times and twice served time in prison.
Most recently being released in December 2009. Sorensen became a broadcaster while still an active player, working as a sports reporter for WTMJ-television Channel 4 in Milwaukee during the offseason.
After his playing career ended, he served as a color analyst for major league and college baseball games on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network from 1990 to 1994.
From July 1994 to February 1995, he co-hosted a morning show called The Morning Battery with Butch Stearns on Detroit"s WDFN Radio. He then went to Detroit"s WJR radio, where he partnered with Frank Beckmann to call games for the Detroit Tigers Radio Network from 1995 to 1998. Sorensen left the Tigers in June 1998 for undisclosed personal reasons and was replaced by Jim Price.
After serving his first prison sentence, Sorensen worked at a McDonald"s restaurant in Roseville, Michigan, for three months.
He also worked at a storage facility in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan. In 2014, Sorensen returned to broadcasting, providing radio color commentary for Wake Forest University baseball and television color commentary for the Winston-Salem Dash (Chicago White Sox Class High-A team in the Carolina League).