Extreme Home Run Suppression

San Diego Padres lefty Alex Torres pitched two innings of shutout relief last night against the Cubs.  The former Tampa Bay Ray has now thrown 87 career innings in MLB and allowed only one home run*.

Torres is one of only four pitchers to allow fewer than two HR’s while throwing over 80 innings in the MLB integration era….

 

Rk           Player   IP HR From   To   Age  G  BF      Tm
1    Lance  Rautzhan 94.2  1 1977 1979 24-26 83 414 LAD-MIL
2       Alex  Torres 87.0  1 2011 2014 23-26 65 348 TBR-SDP
3     Kevin  Cameron 86.1  1 2007 2009 27-29 69 383 SDP-OAK
4         Dan  Otero 81.0  1 2012 2014 27-29 66 334 SFG-OAK

 

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Generated 5/25/2014.

*Martin Prado tagged him last August