Craig Lefferts

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23 innings, 1,108 hits allowed, 490 runs allowed, 436 earned runs allowed, 120 home runs allowed, 322 walks allowed, 719 strikeouts, 31 wild pitches, 4,754 batters faced, 55 intentional walks, 10 balks and a 3.43 ERA.

As of 2022, Lefferts is the most recent pitcher to hit a walk-off home run, doing so on April 25, 1986, in the bottom of the 12th inning against the San Francisco Giants' Greg Minton. He will likely be the last pitcher to do so, as the MLB has implemented a universal DH for the 2022 season and beyond. [7] [8] He was the first pitcher to hit a walk-off home run since Moe Drabowsky in 1969. [9]

A few years after retiring as a player, Lefferts became a coach in the Toronto Blue Jays system [9] before joining the Oakland Athletics system in 2001 and, in 2015, became the team's pitching rehab coordinator. [2] Lefferts underwent two failed eye surgeries in retirement which damaged his vision even further. [9]

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Craig Lefferts
Pitcher
Born: (1957-09-29) September 29, 1957 (age 66)
Munich, West Germany
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 7, 1983, for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
July 3, 1994, for the California Angels