Javier Lopez’s homerless streak

I don’t know how I’d never discovered this…perhaps someone’s mentioned it before, but I haven’t seen this. Since putting on a Giants uniform, Javier Lopez has not allowed a single home run. That’s in 62.1 innings pitched. He’s now had 83 consecutive homerless appearances as a Giant. Incidentally, that ranks as the second-longest such streak by a pitcher in Giants history: Rk Strk Start End Games ▾ HR 1 Greg Minton 1979-06-01 1982-05-01 178 0 2 Javier Lopez 2010-08-01 2011-08-07 83 0 3 Gary Lavelle 1976-08-20 1977-07-26 64 0 4 Tim Worrell 2002-04-11 2002-08-15 57 0 5 Gary Lavelle 1978-04-09 1978-09-01 55 0 Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 8/9/2011. As of today, he’s the only Giant in history with 50+ IP and zero home runs allowed (we’ll see if that lasts). If that’s not amazing enough for you, maybe this is: as a Giant, Lopez has allowed ...