Luke Allen

Lucas Gale Allen (August 4, 1978 – April 26, 2022), was an American professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies from 2002–2003.

Career Allen played high school baseball at Newton High School in Georgia and committed to play college baseball at Southern Union State Community College in Alabama in 1997. However, Allen signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1996 and was assigned to the Great Falls Dodgers for the 1996 season. He started 2001 for the Jacksonville Suns (where he was selected as a Southern League All-Star outfielder) He recorded his first hit (a double) on September 14 against Kent Mercker of the Colorado Rockies. That was the only hit he would have in his major league career, as he played in six games for the Dodgers that season, with seven at-bats and three strikeouts. and spent most of the year with the Rockies Triple-A team, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, before getting a September call-up for the Rockies, where he was hitless in two at-bats as a pinch hitter.