Jay Bruce and Lefty Versus Lefty Homers

Sunday, as the Reds completed their sweep of the Dodgers, Jay Bruce hit a pair of homers.

So what, you ask?

I mean Bruce has had 14 multi-homer games in his career. Well to start with, the two homers were off Clayton Kershaw. Since 2008, Kershaw has only had 12 multi-homer games. I'm not talking about games in which a batter has hit two homers off of him, I mean the whole damn team.

• On July 21, 2013 - Kershaw allowed two homers, both to Jayson Werth.
• On May 2, 2012 - Kershaw allowed three homers, two to Carlos Gonzalez.
• On August 6, 2010 - Kershaw allowed two homers, both to Adam Dunn.

And that's the end of that list. Kershaw has allowed 73 homers in his career and only 20 have been to 13 different lefties.

• Adam Dunn 4 
• Joey Votto 2 
• Brad Hawpe 2 
• Carlos Gonzalez 2 
• Jay Bruce 2 
• Chase Utley 1 
• Garrett Jones 1 
• Prince Fielder 1 
• Kelly Johnson 1 
• Bobby Abreu 1 
• Adam LaRoche 1 
• Freddie Freeman 1 
• Todd Helton 1

So Jay Bruce is in pretty select company, just against Kershaw only.

But let's expand Bruce's ability to go deep against lefties.

2013 Leading lefty HR hitters vs. lefties

2013 - Leading lefties vs. lefties HR hitters

	G	PA	AB	HR	BB	K
Chris Davis (BAL)	89	208	189	13	11	66	-	-
Kyle Seager (SEA)	97	234	218	10	14	47	-	-
Jay Bruce (CIN)	88	204	188	10	11	52	-	-
Joey Votto (CIN)	89	221	185	9	33	52	-	-
Prince Fielder (DET)	93	226	200	8	20	38	-	-
Robinson Cano (NYY)	104	234	209	7	20	41	-	-
Anthony Rizzo (CHC)	95	193	167	7	22	41	-	-
Alex Gordon (KC)	89	205	186	7	12	39	-	-

Created by BaseballAnalytics.org on 9/9/2013

2012 Leading lefty HR hitters vs. lefties

2012 - Lefties vs Lefty Homers

	G	PA	AB	HR	BB	K
Adam Dunn (CWS)	104	215	183	15	29	86
Curtis Granderson (NYY)	106	247	216	14	26	79
Josh Reddick (OAK)	105	239	224	12	11	56
Jay Bruce (CIN)	89	194	169	11	18	56
Adam LaRoche (WSH)	94	188	168	11	15	51
Josh Hamilton (TEX)	85	192	175	10	11	54
Michael Saunders (SEA)	92	192	180	8	12	44
Ike Davis (NYM)	90	178	167	8	11	50
Kyle Seager (SEA)	102	233	215	7	12	44
Jason Kubel (ARI)	92	203	184	7	15	60
Jason Heyward (ATL)	118	257	237	7	19	71
Freddie Freeman (ATL)	114	257	228	7	22	67
Chris Davis (BAL)	71	118	113	7	4	33

Created by BaseballAnalytics.org on 9/9/2013

Lefty vs Lefty Home Runs 2010-13

Bruce has hit more home runs off left-handed pitchers (44) than any other left-handed batter since the 2010 season.

2010-13 Lefty vs Lefties Homers

	G	PA	AB	HR	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLUG	OPS	HR%	K%
Jay Bruce (CIN)	365	773	691	44	65	211	.249	.316	.486	.802	6.4%	27.3%
Curtis Granderson (NYY)	316	685	600	35	63	192	.240	.321	.470	.791	5.8%	28.0%
Carlos Gonzalez (COL)	329	770	714	35	46	178	.293	.336	.497	.834	4.9%	23.1%
Robinson Cano (NYY)	423	965	870	34	68	150	.279	.339	.446	.785	3.9%	15.5%
Josh Hamilton (LAA)	324	693	640	33	36	178	.252	.292	.461	.753	5.2%	25.7%
Adam Dunn (CWS)	320	654	557	30	84	232	.174	.291	.370	.660	5.4%	35.5%
Joey Votto (CIN)	353	799	675	28	113	173	.289	.398	.495	.893	4.1%	21.7%
Prince Fielder (DET)	406	899	787	26	88	175	.272	.356	.422	.778	3.3%	19.5%
Carlos Pena (HOU)	283	580	481	25	79	197	.173	.302	.358	.659	5.2%	34.0%
Ryan Howard (PHI)	297	594	542	24	37	200	.221	.283	.400	.683	4.4%	33.7%
David Ortiz (BOS)	346	731	656	24	68	144	.279	.346	.462	.808	3.7%	19.7%
Brian McCann (ATL)	310	587	540	24	36	118	.252	.305	.426	.731	4.4%	20.1%

Created by BaseballAnalytics.org on 9/9/2013

I'm a fan of guys with two first names

I admit I'm a Jay Bruce fan, but I think he has those dangerous lefty vs. lefty to garner your support as well.