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Monday
Sep092013

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.

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 - -

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

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%

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.

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