Babe Ruth homered off by far the fewest: 33. Even in 1921 when Ruth hit 59 home runs he homered off more: 37.
Here's the box score:
The numbers across the top are the number of pitchers. Ruth and McGwire are the only ones to homer off pitchers four times in one of those seasons. McGwire off Andy Ashby. Ruth did it to two pitchers:
Milt Gaston
Rube Walberg.
Bonds homered three times in 2001 off these three pitchers:
Jason Middlebrook
Curt Schilling
Chan Ho Park.
Maris homered three times in 1961 off these three pitchers:
Jim Perry
Frank Lary
Pete Burnside
Finally, the 7 pitchers who each gave up three home runs to Babe Ruth in 1927:
Slim Harriss
Ken Holloway
Joe Shaute
Tommy Thomas
Sloppy Thurston
Tony Welzer
Tom Zachary: 22,36,60.
1 comment:
Of course McGwire hit homers off more pitchers than Ruth. There were fewer teams in Ruth's day, no inter-league play, and fewer pitchers per team
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