Jesse Jefferson, a right-handed pitcher on the Toronto Blue Jays 1977 squad, has passed away at the age of 62.

He died of prostate cancer in his hometown of Midlothian, Va., on Thursday.

Selected by the Jays in the 1976 expansion draft, Jefferson was a mainstay on the club’s pitching staff from 1977 to 1980.

Despite an ugly 9-17 record, Jefferson posted a respectable 4.31 ERA and tossed 217 innings for the Jays in 1977. He followed that up by pitching 211-2/3 innings in 1978.

On May 23, 1978, Jefferson would set a team record by pitching a 12-inning complete game against the Boston Red Sox. The hard-throwing righty would stifle the bats of Hall of Famers Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski and Carlton Fisk to lead the Jays to a 2-1 victory.

Jefferson would struggle to hold his spot in the rotation in 1979 and 1980, but he would hurl an impressive 11-inning shutout against the Oakland A’s on May 16, 1980, defeating Mike Norris, who would win 22 games that season.