Batista hit .267 with four hits over 15 at-bats for the Astros as a 27-year old making it to the Big Leagues for the first time toiling for nine years in the Minors.
After spending all of 1974 in the Minors yet again, he made it back in 1975 with 10 games, collecting three hits, all as a pinch-hitter .
Sadly for him that would be all as far as his Major League career went, though he would go on to play nine seasons in the Mexican League until the age of 38 playing mainly for the Cordoba Cafeteros.
For his Big League tenure, Batista finished with a .280 average, with seven hits in 20 at-bats with two runs scored and two RBIs.