Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Boston Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame, died Tuesday at his home in Maine. He was 83.

Known as “El Tiante,” Tiant was a three-time All-Star whose greatest individual season came in 1968 with Cleveland, when he went 21-9 with 19 complete games and nine shutouts — four of them in a row. But it was his 1.60 ERA — the best in the AL in half a century — that, combined with Bob Gibson’s 1.12 mark in the NL, helped convince baseball to lower the pitching mound to give batters more of a chance.

Tiant again won the AL ERA title with a 1.91 mark in 1972.

“Luis embodied everything we love about this game: resilience, passion, and an undeniable sense of belonging to something greater than himself,” Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner said. “But what made Luis unforgettable was his vibrant personality. He was a gifted storyteller, always sharing tales filled with humor, honesty, and an enduring loyalty to his teammates.”

The son of a Negro Leagues star, the younger Tiant was 229-172 in all with a 3.30 ERA and 2,416 strikeouts. He had 187 complete games and 47 shutouts in a 19-year career spent mostly with Cleveland and Boston. His final season was 1982 when he pitched six games and went 2-2 for the Angels.

A four-time 20-game winner, Tiant won a career-high 22 in 1974.

In the 1975 World Series — still considered one of the greatest in baseball history — Tiant’s Red Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds.

Tiant won Game 1, shutting out the Reds. He threw 155 pitches in a complete game victory in Game 4 and was back on the mound for eight innings of Game 6, which Boston won on Carlton Fisk’s home run in the bottom of the 12th.

He was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame but never made the national shrine in Cooperstown, receiving a high of 30.9% of the votes in 1988, his first year on the ballot.

He was a pitching coach in the Dodgers minor league system from 1992-95.

Black will return as Rockies manager

The Colorado Rockies are bringing back Bud Black, the franchise’s all-time winningest manager, for another season on the heels of a sixth straight losing campaign.

The Rockies extended Black through 2025 just over a week after concluding a season in which they finished 61-101. It was the second-worst mark in baseball, behind only the Chicago White Sox (41-121).

Colorado hasn’t been to the postseason since 2018.

The 67-year-old Black became the seventh manager in franchise history on Nov. 7, 2016. Known for his relatability to players, the former MLB pitcher instantly turned around a scuffling franchise, going 87-75 in 2017 before losing in the NL wild-card game. The Rockies reached the playoffs again in 2018 after finishing second in the NL West.

Black is 537-657 over his eight seasons with Colorado.

Prior to his time in Denver, Black went 649-713 in nine seasons with the San Diego Padres. He was NL manager of the year in 2010.

Black, the Angels pitching coach from 2000-06, pitched in parts of 15 seasons for Seattle (1981), Kansas City (1982-88), Cleveland (1988-90, 1995), Toronto (1990) and San Francisco (1991-94). The left-hander finished 121-116 with a 3.84 ERA.