On April 13, Aaron made his major league debut and was hitless in five at-bats against the Cincinnati Reds ' left-hander Joe Nuxhall.

It was the only homer the Cy Young Award winner allowed to a left-hander all season.

Valenzuela was less dominant after the 1981 player strike wiped out the middle third of the season, but the left-hander still finished with a 13 – 7 record and a 2. 48 ERA.

Although not ambidextrous, Phil Mickelson and Mike Weir are both right-handers who golf left-handed ; Ben Hogan was the opposite, being a natural left-hander who played golf right-handed.

A left-hander, Navratilova won all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles in 1984, partnering right-handed Pam Shriver, a tall and talented player whose most noted stroke was a slice forehand, a shot virtually unheard of in the game today.

The young golfer was right-handed but played left-handed ; although he was showing considerable promise as a left-hander, he had been told that he might be an even better player if he switched to right-handed play.

As a batsman, O ' Reilly was a competent left-hander, usually batting well down the order.

Recovery would take a year or more ; furthermore, a return to major league pitching after a second Tommy John operation ( Gagné's first was in 1997 ) is nearly unprecedented, having since been achieved by another Dodger reliever, the Taiwanese left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo.

As a left-hander, Spahn was able not only to watch any runner on first base, but also to not telegraph whether he was delivering to the plate or to first base, thereby forcing the runner to stay close to the bag.

John Franklin Sain ( September 25, 1917 – November 7, 2006 ) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951.

But his untapped talent was volcanic: in 1990, Johnson became the first left-hander to strike out Wade Boggs three times in one game, and a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers attested to his potential.

Naturally right-handed, when he was six years old Thorpe changed his stance to make it harder for his two elder brothers to get him out and because the boundary in his garden was shorter on the leg-side for a left-hander.

As a left-hander, Ford was also deft at keeping runners at their base: He set a record in 1961 by pitching 243 consecutive innings without allowing a stolen base.

On November 7,, Lee was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the team's record-holder for most games pitched by a left-hander ( 321 ) and the third-highest win total ( 94 ) by a Red Sox southpaw.

The left-hander was perceived to be a better player of spin and a better prospect on the dry pitches of the Indian subcontinent than Ponting.

A natural left-hander, he was taught by his father to play right-handed.

In the late 1940s he was among the team's stars, becoming the first left-hander ever to win three games in a single World Series in 1946 and later leading the National League in several categories in.

Meanwhile, Nuxhall was the biggest member of the ninth grade class in nearby Hamilton, Ohio at and — a left-hander with a hard fastball, but not much control.

Abreu with the Yankees. On July 30, 2006, Abreu was traded along with Cory Lidle to the New York Yankees for minor league shortstop C. J. Henry ( a 2005 first-round draft pick ), left-hander Matt Smith ( a seven-year minor league veteran ), catcher Jesus Sanchez, and right-hander Carlos Monasterios -- all low-level prospects in the Yankee organization.

He was the first left-hander to win a major, but also the first lefty to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, in the veterans category.

A left-hander, Mans was particularly famous for his long powerful pots, as well as his fashionable waistcoats.

Some of Ford's totals were depressed by Yankees manager Casey Stengel who viewed Ford as his top pitching asset, and often reserved his ace left-hander for more formidable opponents such as the Tigers, Indians and White Sox.

David Wells tied Whitey Ford for 13th place in victories by a left-hander on August 26,.

His 1, 119 career games pitched is an NL record, and is ranked third in major league history ; his 424 career saves ranked second in major league history when he retired, and remain the most by a left-hander.

From 1951 to 1971 he held the Cardinals franchise record for career strikeouts by a left-hander, and he also retired with the fourth-highest fielding percentage among pitchers (. 983 ), then the top mark among left-handers.

After breaking Bill Sherdel's club record for career strikeouts by a left-hander in, he held the mark until Steve Carlton surpassed it in.

In 1985, Fingers broke his American League record for career saves ; and in 1991 Righetti surpassed Lyle's major-league record for career saves by a left-hander, though Lyle still holds the AL mark of 232.

It was the first Yankee no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and the first by a Yankee left-hander since 1917.

A left-hander, Score struck out 245 batters in his rookie year, a rookie record that stood until, when it was topped by Dwight Gooden ( Score, Gooden, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Don Sutton, Gary Nolan, Kerry Wood, Mark Langston and Hideo Nomo were the only eight rookie pitchers to top 200 strikeouts in the 20th century ).

His finest season was in 1990, when he won 18 games to just 9 losses and posted a 2. 40 ERA — to date, the lowest by an Angel left-hander on a season, surpassing Frank Tanana's 2. 43 in 1976.

You then have a sharp, slow left-hander which is Turn 11, before a long, fast right-hander which is classified as two turns by the designer, Hermann Tilke.

The left-hander was stopped by Tampa Police at 3: 43 a. m.

Ankiel hit his first grand slam at St. Louis against left-hander Eddie Guardado of the Cincinnati Reds on August 31 with the team trailing 4 – 3, for a 8 – 5 win that broke a tie with Red Schoendienst for LaRussa for most wins by a Cardinals manager.

Lee was a 2008 inductee into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the team's record-holder for most games pitched by a left-hander ( 321 ) and the third-highest win total by a Red Sox southpaw ( 94 ).

The pitching staff had six players with ten or more wins, led by twenty-game-winner Dennis Leonard ( 20 – 11, 3. 79 ) and left-hander Larry Gura ( 18 – 10, 2. 95 ).

Initially thought of as the right-handed ace of the Royals team that posted the franchise's first winning record in nine seasons, Hernandez became the opening-day pitcher by winning Royals ' manager Tony Peña's coin toss against left-hander Jeremy Affeldt.

A hard-throwing left-hander, Howe's career was plagued by alcohol and cocaine abuse ; he first checked himself into a substance abuse clinic in, but a relapse resulted in him being suspended for the entire season.

His maiden Test century, 101 in the First Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground after Australia was made to follow-on, was the first made by a left-hander in Tests.

On August 19, 1969, he pitched his first no-hitter at Wrigley Field against the eventual Western Division champion Atlanta Braves, winning 3 – 0 on Ron Santo's 3-run home run and outdueling the Braves ' Phil Niekro ; Holtzman notably had no strikeouts in his gem, which was the first no-hitter ever thrown by a Cub left-hander at Wrigley Field.

In these instances, a right-hander will be required to turn more towards their target before throwing, whereas a left-hander will usually already be positioned to make a throw.

Much later, Mack described his star left-hander as, "... the atom bomb of baseball long before the atom bomb was discovered.

The cars then head uphill along Avenue d ' Ostende, before changing down for the long left-hander at Massenet.

The circuit starts with a very long right-hander ( it is about 300 degrees ) that starts fast but slows towards the end before a sharp left-hander.

After the hairpin, the circuit bends right slightly before a relatively fast left-hander to finish.

The Brazilian was nearly touching the back of the Williams as they approached the last left-hander before the pits on lap 17.

Drobný was the losing finalist at Wimbledon in both 1949 and 1952 before finally winning it in 1954 by beating Ken Rosewall for the title, the first left-hander to capture Wimbledon since Sir Norman Brookes.