Something Grand (UPDATED!)

Wednesday, July 06 2011 @ 07:33 PM EDT

Contributed by: Magpie

Yes, yes. We're quite impressed. It is a very cool play, ending the game with an outfielder throwing the tying run out at home plate.

But seeing as how the Blue Jays seem to have decided to experiment with forsaking all manner of outstanding defensive plays by outfielders, at least for the foreseeable future, it's a good thing that there's an even better baseball play.

It's that one where you score four runs with one swing of the bat. The Great Big Fly. Is there anything else like it? Can a football team score three touchdowns at once? Is there a basketball shot that's so impressive that they give your team 65 points for it? Those would be the equivalents...

The same man has held the record for career grand slams for some 77 years now. Heading into the 1934 season, Babe Ruth had hit 682 home runs, and 15 of them had been grand slams. No one had more. But the man who hit behind him, Lou Gehrig, was closing fast. Gehrig had 299 career homers going into the 1934 season, and 13 of them had come with the bases loaded. In one memorable week in May, Gehrig hit 5 homers, two of them slams to catch up to Ruth, and three weeks later he hit his 16th career slam to move ahead. Two weeks later, Ruth would hit the 16th and final grand slam of his career, to catch Gehrig but the Iron Horse pulled ahead to stay on July 5 when he hit the 17th slam of his career. He's been all alone atop this leader board ever since, and by the time his illness cut short first his career, and then his life, Gehrig had increased his total to 23 grand slams.

No one's really come within shouting distance until recently. But this April, Alex Rodriguez connected for his 22nd career slam and every new day brings the chance that Gehrig's mark will finally be matched.

 1. Lou Gehrig      23
 2. Alex Rodriguez  22
 3. Manny Ramirez   21
 4. Eddie Murray    19
 5. Willie McCovey  18 
    Robin Ventura   18
 7. Jimmie Foxx     17
    Ted Williams    17
 9. Hank Aaron      16
    Dave Kingman    16
    Babe Ruth       16

I had no idea (until I looked it up!) which pitcher had surrendered the most grand slams. I assumed it would be nowhere close to Gehrig's 23 - it seemed unlikely that anyone would have given up even half as many. It's true that pitchers participate in far more at bats than hitters. Pete Rose batted far more often than anyone in major league history, with 15,861 plate appearances, almost 2,000 more than the next guy (Carl Yastrzemski.) This was largely because even when he reached the point when he was no longer good enough to play, his manager - a guy named Pete Rose - kept writing his name into the lineup. But Cy Young was involved in almost twice as many at bats as Rose, facing 29,565 hitters over the course of his career. Granted, Cy Young's entire career came before he had to worry about the home run, which made it much easier to work deep into the game. Young pitched 749 complete games, and only two other pitchers in history - Ryan and Sutton - have even made that many starts.

Even so, there are plenty of recent and contemporary pitchers who faced more than 20,000 batters - Spahn, Niekro, Carlton, Ryan, Perry, Sutton, Maddux, Clemens, Blyleven. In fact, no fewer than 54 pitchers have faced more hitters than Pete Rose faced pitchers (the 54th man is Jerry Koosman, who pitched to 15,996 hitters during his career. It's only in the past decade that it's even been possible for a pitcher to lead the league in batters faced without pitching to at least 1000 hitters, and needless to say no hitter has ever come close to getting that many plate appearances in a season.

But that doesn't matter, of course. Pitchers are a fairly neutral element in the particulars of any single at bat, pitchers are the force dragging all the hitters towards the centre. Hitters are the wild card, hitters are the source of variety. No pitcher allows home runs as frequently as Jose Bautista hits them - for one thing, such a pitcher simply wouldn't be allowed to pitch in the major leagues. But no pitcher allows home runs as infrequently as Ichiro Suzuki hits them. And so just two pitchers have allowed 500 home runs - barely - over the course of their careers. Meanwhile 25 hitters have hit that many, and some have hit well more than that.

So who would have allowed the most grand slams, and how many?

It's a tie!

Michael Jackson 10
Nolan Ryan 10

Didn't see that one coming.

You remember Michael Jackson, right? He spent some 17 years in the majors, bounced around a lot, was almost always used as a setup man - but he was generally really good. And he allowed just 127 home runs in his career - it's bizarre that 10 of them came with the bases loaded. Even Ryan is a bit of a surprise. The Express pitched forever and ever, of course. Only four men faced more hitters in the course of their careers, and three of that foursome started out before homers were being hit (Cy Young, Pud Galvin, Walter Johnson. Phil Niekro is the fourth.). Even so, Ryan allowed just 321 HRs, which is the exact same number as Danny Darwin, of all people. He allowed fewer home runs than Steve Trachsel, Jeff Suppan, and Josh Towers. (I'm joking about one of these guys, but only one.)

Six pitchers - Ned Garver, Milt Pappas, Jerry Reuss, Kenny Rogers, Lee Smith, and Frank Viola - allowed 9 slams in their careers, and a whole host of guys have allowed 8. One of those men, Cliff Lee of the Phillies, is still active and has a chance to move on up the list. Two other well known Phillies - Jamie Moyer and Robin Roberts - are the only pitchers who have given up 500 career home runs. Moyer, the all-time gopher ball king (511 HRs against) has allowed 7 slams. So far, anyway (hey, he says he wants to come back next season, when he finishes rehabbing from last winter's Tommy John surgery). Roberts allowed 505 home runs, but only 4 with the bases loaded,

And Jim Palmer, famously, didn't allow any. Palmer believed a pitcher had to accept that he was going to give up runs, but should always remember that the pitcher who allowed just one run at a time was the guy who was going to win. And so you adjust when there are runners on base. You don't challenge the hitter's power. You nibble, if necessary. It was Tommy John who used to say that there's always a base open, and it's better to walk in one than have them drive in three. Palmer and John each walked in 13 guys with the bases loaded over his career. Palmer and John gave up almost the same number of HRs in their long careers (303 against Palmer, 302 against John), but John did give up five slams over the years, and that was five more than Palmer.

Over the course of their 30 plus seasons, the Jays have hit 5539 home runs, and 118 of them came with the sacks juiced. That's 2.1 percent by the way. One out of every 47, and here are all 118 of them:

        Date	Year	Hitter	    Pitcher
				
1	27-Jun	1977	Torres	    Guidry

2	7-May	1978	Bosetti	    Romo
3	31-Jul	1978	Carty	    Billingham

4	3-Jul	1979	Howell	    Billingham (2)
5	27-Aug	1979	Howell	    Minetto
6	7-Sep	1979	Carty	    Waits

7	26-Apr	1980	Bonnell	    Caldwell
8	4-May	1980	Velez	    Spillner

9	24-Apr	1982	Barfield    Burgmeier

10	1-May	1983	Bonnell	    Tidrow
11	5-Jun	1983	Martinez    Stoddard
12	11-Sep	1983	Upshaw	    Codiroli

13	20-Aug	1984	Moseby	    Witt,M

14	23-Jun	1985	Whitt	    Kison
15	9-Jul	1985	Bell	    Vandeberg
16	31-Aug	1985	Bell	    Cook

17	22-May	1986	Whitt	    Dotson
18	20-Jun	1986	Bell	    Righetti
19	31-Aug	1986	Moseby	    Portugal

20	11-Jun	1987	Bell	    Habyan
21	23-Jun	1987	Upshaw	    Robinson
22	27-Aug	1987	Bell	    Cadaret

23	19-Apr	1988	Barfield    Saberhagen
24	4-Sep	1988	Bell 	    Williams,Mi
25	13-Sep	1988	Barfield    Gibson

26	7-Apr	1989	Fernandez   Witt,B
27	2-May	1989	Mulliniks   Welch
28	2-Jun	1989	Felix	    Stanley
29	4-Jun	1989	Whitt	    Smith,L
30	7-Jul	1989	Borders	    Hernandez
31	21-Jul	1989	McGriff	    Harris
32	22-Jul	1989	Moseby	    Powell
33	1-Sep	1989	Hill,G	    Guthrie

34	11-Apr	1990	Bell	    Brown
35	14-Aug	1990	Hill,G	    Peterson
36	11-Sep	1990	Fernandez   Stottlemyre,M
37	29-Sep	1990	Gruber	    Lamp

38	7-May	1992	Winfield    Schooler
39	1-Sep	1992	Gruber	    Pall

40	8-Jun	1993	Carter	    Scott
41	29-Aug	1993	Alomar	    Hanson

42	28-May	1994	Schofield   Langston
43	5-Jul	1994	Molitor	    Stevens

44	27-Apr	1995	Sprague	    Darling
45	16-Jul	1995	Olerud	    Carmona
46	21-Jul	1995	Sprague	    Torres
47	25-Aug	1995	White	    McCaskill

48	22-Apr	1996	Carter	    Davis,T
49	27-May	1996	Olerud	    Fernandez
50	3-Jul	1996	Sprague	    Krivda

51	25-Apr	1997	Delgado	    Martinez,D
52	14-May	1997	O'Brien	    Myers,M
53	6-Jun	1997	Delgado	    Oquist
54	10-Jul	1997	Carter	    Gordon
55	23-Jul	1997	Carter	    Adamson
56	24-Jul	1997	Delgado	    Mercedes
57	11-Aug	1997	Santiago    Myers,M (2)

58	7-May	1998	Delgado	    Moyer
59	17-Jul	1998	Green	    Stanton
60	19-Jul	1998	Canseco	    Pettite
61	12-Aug	1998	Delgado	    McCarthy

62	19-Jul	1999	Green	    Chen
63	20-Jul	1999	Fletcher    Remlinger
64	3-Oct	1999	Batista	    Jackson,M

65	17-Apr	2000	Fullmer	    Pole
66	20-Apr	2000	Fletcher    Mercker
67	8-May	2000	Fletcher    Johnson,J
68	26-May	2000	Fletcher    Brocail
69	7-Jun	2000	Delgado	    Millwood
70	11-Jun	2000	Batista	    Lira
71	3-Jul	2000	Batista	    Johnson,J (2)
72	16-Jul	2000	Cordova	    Leiter
73	17-Sep	2000	Delgado	    Pena

74	20-Apr	2001	Mondesi	    Wilson,K
75	21-Apr	2001	Fullmer	    Stein
76	29-Jun	2001	Mondesi	    Florie
77	6-Jul	2001	Fullmer	    Thurman
78	9-Sep	2001	Fernandez   Lilly
79	5-Oct	2001	Cruz	    Finley

80	9-Apr	2003	Wells	    Mendoza
81	3-May	2003	Wells	    Weber
82	6-Jun	2003	Delgado	    Riedling
83	4-Jul	2003	Hinske	    Driskill
84	28-Sep	2003	Delgado	    Lee

85	22-Apr	2004	Gomez	    Schilling
86	2-Jun	2004	Phelps	    Piniero
87	7-Jul	2004	Phelps	    Blackley
88	20-Aug	2004	Woodward    Rodriguez
89	5-Sep	2004	Gross	    Duchsherer,M

90	9-Apr	2005	Zaun	    Neal
91	1-Jul	2005	Johnson,R   Myers,M (3)

92	13-Apr	2006	Wells	    Clement
93	10-May	2006	Overbay	    Blanton
94	17-Jul	2006	Wells	    Koronoka
95	25-Jul	2006	McDonald    Fruto
96	29-Jul	2006	Glaus	    Zito
97	27-Aug	2006	Molina,B    Perez,O
98	13-Sep	2006	Zaun	    Jimenez

99	7-Apr	2007	Thomas	    Fossum
100	19-May	2007	Stairs	    Condrey
101	20-Jun	2007	Thomas	    Kuo
102	19-Sep	2007	Adams	    Papelbon

103	6-Apr	2008	Thomas	    Delcarmen
104	14-May	2008	Stairs	    Bonser
105	17-May	2008	Barajas	    Eaton
106	24-May	2008	Wilkerson   Hochevar
107	19-Jun	2008	Inglett	    Riske
108	13-Aug	2008	Wells	    Rogers
109	6-Sep	2008	Zaun	    Percival

110	16-Apr	2009	Millar	    Dickey
111	24-Aug	2009	Barajas	    Niemann
112	31-Aug	2009	Lind	    Holland

113	18-Jul	2010	Escobar	    Matusz
114	30-Jul	2010	Bautista    Masterson
115	30-Sep	2010	Bautista    Neshek

116	29-May	2011	Hill,A	    Danks
117	3-Jun	2011	Arencibia   Britton
118	8-Jun	2011	Lind	    Adcock

Good times! Some very memorable blasts in there. I would single out Ernie Whitt against Bruce Kison in 1985 - that's the famous karate kick game, when George Bell did not react well to being hit by the Boston pitcher, and trotted out to the mound to express his displeasure. Bell was dismissed from the proceedings but Kison hung around, and when Whitt took him deep in the sixth inning he jogged around the bases screaming at Kison every step of the way. I also have very fond recollections of Dave Winfield's 1992 slam. It was early in the season, the team was still kind of finding its way - they were in Seattle, trailing 7-3 going into the ninth inning. They scored a run, got a couple of people on base, and the Mariners summoned their closer, Mike Schooler. He retired Alomar for the second out, but Carter drew a walk, and then Big Dave just crunched one, into deep left-centre to put the Jays ahead 8-7.

And you probably have your own favourites, don't you?

Yes, that's Mike Myers who the Jays have victimized more than any other pitcher. Well, the man is a LOOGY - what was he doing facing Charlie O'Brien, Benito Santiago, and Reed Johnson with the bases loaded. Three of these Toronto slams were delivered by pinch-hitters: Jesse Barfield in 1982, Tony Fernadez in 2001, and Sparky's slam off Myers in 2005. Two of them were game-ending walkoff homers, most recently Gregg Zaun's Toronto swan song against Troy Percival and the Rays in 2008 (Zaun would go to Tampa and hit a slam off Brandon League less than a year later.) The other Toronto walkoff slam was delivered by George Bell, against Texas in 1988. The pitcher victimized on that occasion was Mitch Williams, who would give up another notable walkoff homer in Toronto five years later. You may remember that one as well...

Sixty-two different players have hit slams for the Jays, and here they are (along with their career plate appearances and home runs while with the team). The Blue Jay hitter with the most grand slams? If you guessed that it's probably the guy who hit far more home runs than anyone else... you'd be on the right track. .

      Hitter      PlApp    HR    GS
                 
 1    Delgado      6018    336    9
 2    Bell         4528    202    7
 3    Wells        5963    223    5
 4    Carter       4494    203    4
 5    Fletcher     1927     61    4
 6    Barfield     3869    179    3
 7    Moseby       5799    149    3
 8    Whitt        3977    131    3
 9    Sprague      3527    113    3
10    Batista      1364     80    3
11    Fernandez    5900     60    3
12    Fullmer      1097     50    3
13    Zaun         1922     45    3
14    Thomas        696     29    3
15    Green        2766    119    2
16    Gruber       3372    114    2
17    Upshaw       4572    112    2
18    Olerud       3689    109    2
19    Bautista     1501     98    2
20    Lind         2257     96    2
21    Mondesi      1414     66    2
22    Phelps       1096     47    2
23    Howell       2168     43    2
24    Bonnell      1647     33    2
25    Carty         942     32    2
26    Stairs        773     32    2
27    Barajas       837     30    2
28    Hill,G        441     16    2
29    McGriff      2322    125    1
30    Cruz         2901    122    1
31    Hill,A       3501     94    1
32    Overbay      2850     83    1
33    Hinske       2559     78    1
34    Velez        1843     72    1
35    White        2979     72    1
36    Mulliniks    3470     68    1
37    Glaus        1090     58    1
38    Alomar       3105     55    1
39    Borders      2463     54    1
40    Molitor      1838     51    1
41    Canseco       658     46    1
42    Johnson,R    2302     42    1
43    Martinez     1261     35    1
44    Winfield      670     26    1
45    Woodward     1182     26    1
46    Felix         971     24    1
47    Molina,B      458     19    1
48    Bosetti      1522     17    1
49    O'Brien       642     17    1
50    McDonald     1414     17    1
51    Adams         993     17    1
52    Arencibia     292     14    1
53    Santiago      396     13    1
54    Escobar       609     13    1
55    Millar        283      7    1
56    Torres        292      5    1
57    Schofield     501      4    1
58    Cordova       221      4    1
59    Gross         250      4    1
60    Wilkerson     241      4    1
61    Gomez         377      3    1
62    Inglett       489      3    1

Any interesting names missing? Well, Shannon Stewart had 4052 plate appearances as a Jay without ever hitting a grand slam. He did hit 74 homers in Toronto, but he did spend most of his time here batting leadoff. He never did hit a grand slam as a major leaguer. Three other men hit more Toronto homers than Stewart, in fewer plate appearances, without hitting a slam here - John Mayberry, Alex Gonzalez (the first), and Alex Rios.

Blue Jays pitchers haven't allowed as many home runs as their teammates have hit, but they've given up more of them with the bases loaded, 124 of 5300.

        Date     Year    Pitcher       Hitter
                
  1     6-Sep    1977    Darr          Fisk
 
  2    18-Apr    1978    Lemanczyk     Otis
  3    25-Apr    1978    Garvin        Dade
  4    26-May    1978    Murphy        Spencer (pinch-hit)
  5    24-Jun    1978    Willis        Alexander,G
  6     6-Aug    1978    Moore         Cowens

  7    22-May    1979    Lemongello    Thornton
  8     3-Jun    1979    Lemongello    Meyer
  9    10-Jun    1979    Willis        Essian
 10    13-Jun    1979    Miller,D      Aikens
 11    14-Jun    1979    Huffman       Aikens (2)
 12    15-Jul    1979    Clancy        Edwards
 13    25-Aug    1979    Moore         Baylor
 14     9-Sep    1979    Buskey        Bonds (walk-off)

 15    22-Apr    1981    McLaughlin    Molitor
 16     7-Jun    1981    Jackson       Bell,B

 17    29-May    1982    Garvin        Ayala (pinch-hit)
 18     2-Jun    1982    Bomback       Murcer
 19    11-Jul    1982    Garvin        Baines
 20    30-Jul    1982    Clancy        Trammell
 21    24-Aug    1982    McLaughlin    Nolan
 22    26-Aug    1982    Schrom        Murray

 23    15-Jun    1983    Geisel        Lopes
 24     8-Aug    1983    Williams,M    Griffey
 25    20-Aug    1983    Stieb         Rice

 26    20-Jul    1984    Jackson       Davis,A

 27    19-Apr    1985    Alexander     Connally
 28    15-May    1985    Caudill       Narron (pinch-hit)

 29     8-May    1986    Acker         Joyner
 30     9-May    1986    Gordon        Davis,A (2)

 31     9-Apr    1987    Johnson       Snyder
 32    29-Jun    1987    Cerutti       Mattingly
 33    29-Jun    1987    Henke         Winfield
 34     6-Aug    1987    Eichhorn      Parsons (pinch-hit)
 35    10-Aug    1987    Nunez         Horn
 36    26-Sep    1987    Cerutti       Nokes

 37     2-Jul    1988    Flanagan      Steinbach

 38     2-May    1989    Henke         McGwire
 39    16-Jul    1989    Ward          Steinbach (2)
 40    12-Sep    1989    Ward          Hrbek

 41    17-May    1990    Wills         Giles
 42    22-May    1990    Wills         Canseco
 43    17-Jul    1990    Wells         Davis,A (3)
 44     3-Aug    1990    Acker         Buechele
 45    14-Sep    1990    Ward          Horn (2) (pinch-hit)

 46     8-Apr    1991    Stieb         Clark,J
 47     1-Jun    1991    Fraser        Winfield (2)
 48    16-Jun    1991    Ward          Orsulak (pinch-hit)
 49    15-Sep    1991    Acker         Canseco (2)

 50     3-Jun    1992    Guzman        Puckett
 51    12-Jun    1992    Stieb         Boggs

 52    13-Apr    1993    Cox           Vizquel
 53    30-Apr    1993    Stottlemyre   Thomas,F

 54     6-Apr    1994    Spoljaric     Ventura
 55     5-May    1994    Guzman        Mayne
 56     7-Jun    1994    Hentgen       Jackson,D
 57     2-Aug    1994    Stewart       Chamberlin

 58    21-Jun    1995    Timlin        Valentin
 59     1-Aug    1995    Hurtado       Baines (2)
 60    18-Aug    1995    Carrara       Joyner (2)
 61    25-Aug    1995    Hentgen       Durham

 62     7-Jul    1996    Ware          Fielder
 63    31-Jul    1996    Risley        Belle (walk-off)
 64    21-Sep    1996    Brow          Murray (2)

 65    20-Apr    1997    Guzman        Palmer 
 66    17-May    1997    Williams,W    Thome
 67     4-Aug    1997    Daal          Colbrunn

 68    18-Jul    1998    Person        Raines
 69    19-Jul    1998    Williams,W    Hoiles
 70    23-Jul    1998    Plesac        Buford

 71    29-Apr    1999    Halladay      Sheets
 72    30-Apr    1999    Lloyd         Griffey,jr
 73    22-May    1999    Carpenter     Valentin (2)
 74    28-Jul    1999    Hamilton      Huskey
 75    13-Aug    1999    Spoljaric     Stairs
 76    14-Aug    1999    Hamilton      Hinch
 77    14-Sep    1999    Koch          Williams,B
 78    14-Sep    1999    Spoljaric     O'Neill
 79    24-Sep    1999    Romano        Ramirez,M
 80    24-Sep    1999    Hudek         Roberts,D

 81    15-Apr    2000    Borbon        Martinez,E
 82    16-Apr    2000    Borbon        Rodriguez,A
 83    18-Apr    2000    Castillo      Kennedy
 84    27-Jun    2000    Escobar       Cox
 85    18-Jul    2000    Carpenter     Piazza

 86     8-Apr    2001    Parris        Posada
 87    18-Aug    2001    Koch          Rodriguez,I

 88    27-Apr    2002    Cassidy       Eckstein
 89    28-Apr    2002    Borbon        Eckstein (2) (walk-off)
 90    11-May    2002    Miller,T      Chavez
 91    16-May    2002    Walker        Cameron
 92    27-Aug    2002    Heredia       Crede (walk-off)

 93    31-Mar    2003    Halladay      Soriano
 94    15-Jun    2003    Lidle         O'Leary
 95    24-Aug    2003    Escobar       Hernandez,R
 96    24-Aug    2003    Towers        Tejada

 97    19-May    2004    Adams         Lecroy
 98    10-Jul    2004    Ligtenberg    Molina,B
 99    18-Jul    2004    Chulk         Teixeira
100    26-Jul    2004    Douglass      Posada (2)
101     6-Aug    2004    Batista       Williams,B (2)
102    12-Aug    2004    Chulk         Broussard
103    28-Aug    2004    Ligtenberg    Sierra

104     2-Jun    2005    Towers        Chavez (2)
105    19-Sep    2005    Batista       Sexton

106     5-Apr    2006    Frasor        Hunter
107     5-Sep    2006    Accardo       Marte

108     4-Apr    2007    Marcum        Granderson
109    11-Sep    2007    Marcum        Giambi

110     8-May    2008    Camp          Navarro
111    16-May    2008    Purcey        Werth
112    19-Jul    2008    Halladay      Longoria
113    24-Sep    2008    Carlson       Abreu

114    25-Apr    2009    Camp          Ramirez,A
115    12-Jun    2009    League        Ross
116    16-Aug    2009    League        Zaun

117    14-Apr    2010    Morrow        Quentin
118     2-Jun    2010    Downs         Crawford
119     8-Jun    2010    Lewis,R       Pena
120    15-Jun    2010    Cecil         Cunningham
121     3-Jul    2010    Romero        Gardner
122    11-Sep    2010    Romero        Hawpe

123     4-Jun    2011    Romero        Reynolds
124     7-Jul    2011    Perez         Hafner (walk-off)

Poor Mike Darr. That was his major league debut, in September 1977. In the first inning, he gave up a single, a walk, hit a batter, and then Carlton Fisk cleared the bases. It was the first grand slam ever hit against the Jays. Darr walked two more batters in the next inning, was yanked from the game, and never pitched in the majors again. That was it...

Bad times. It turns out that Alvin Davis, the slow-footed and (by now) somewhat ancient Mariner, leads all opponents in slams against the Jays. As you can see, there've been a number of pinch hit and walk off jobs. I do think it's rather delightful how utterly random these events are. Sometimes you can go entire seasons without allowing a grand slam. And sometimes you can go to the ball park and see two of them - I was at that game against the Yankees in 1987, when Mattingly (off Cerutti) and Winfield (off Henke) each cleared the bases. Liam was there, too, sort of (his mother would have been almost seven months pregnant for that one!)

And sometimes David Eckstein - L'il Scrappy! - hits slams in back-to-back games. Youneverknow.

Seeing as how Dave Stieb pitched more innings, faced more batters, and allowed more homers than any other pitcher in team history it would be slightly surprising if someone else allowed more grand slams as a Blue Jay, no? Prepare to be slightly surprised. Here are the 82 Blue Jays who have allowed those 123 slams:

       Pitcher     IP      HR   GS
                
 1    Ward         650.2   30    4
 2    Stieb       2873    224    3
 3    Halladay    2046.2  172    3
 4    Guzman      1215.2  115    3
 5    Garvin       606     74    3
 6    Acker        524.1   39    3
 7    Romero       506     44    3
 8    Spoljaric    150.1   21    3
 9    Borbon       107.2   16    3
10    Clancy      2204.2  219    2
11    Hentgen     1636    207    2
12    Carpenter    870.2  111    2
13    Escobar      849     84    2
14    Cerutti      772.1  110    2
15    Williams,W   613.1   88    2
16    Marcum       592     86    2
17    Henke        563     48    2
18    Towers       558.1   90    2
19    Moore        348.1   39    2
20    McLaughlin   341     36    2
21    Jackson      337     30    2
22    Willis       296     36    2
23    Batista      273.1   31    2
24    Hamilton     253.1   33    2
25    Camp         227.1   20    2
26    Koch         211.2   18    2
27    League       202.1   22    2
28    Wills        195.1   21    2
29    Chulk        157.1   19    2
30    Lemongello    83     14    2
31    Ligtenberg    55      6    2
32    Wells       1148.2  126    1
33    Stottlemyre 1139    115    1
34    Alexander    750     81    1
35    Lemanczyk    575     52    1
36    Eichhorn     493     33    1
37    Frasor       453     39    1
38    Flanagan     452.1   39    1
39    Downs        407.2   34    1
40    Timlin       393.1   29    1
41    Walker       308.2   44    1
42    Cecil        301.1   41    1
43    Stewart      295.1   49    1
44    Morrow       226.1   15    1
45    Lidle        192.2   24    1
46    Plesac       181.2   21    1
47    Parris       181     31    1
48    Person       177.2   29    1
49    Huffman      173     25    1
50    Murphy       164.1   18    1
51    Buskey       158.2   22    1
52    Johnson      154.2   13    1
53    Bomback      150     16    1
54    Purcey       149.1   18    1
55    Cox          147.1   12    1
56    Carlson      141.1   16    1
57    Accardo      139.2   12    1
58    Castillo     138     18    1
59    Nunez        137     15    1
60    Caudill      105.2   15    1
61    Risley       100.2   16    1
62    Brow          85.2   11    1
63    Geisel        84     10    1
64    Hurtado       77.2   11    1
65    Lloyd         72     11    1
66    Cassidy       66     12    1
67    Carrara       63.2   15    1
68    Ware          59      8    1
69    Miller,T      52.2    7    1
70    Heredia       52.1    5    1
71    Schrom        46.1    5    1
72    Adams         43      4    1
73    Douglass      38.2    6    1
74    Gordon        32.2    2    1
75    Daal          27      3    1
76    Fraser        26.1    4    1
77    Lewis,R       18.2    4    1
78    Miller,D      15.1    3    1
79    Williams,M     8      5    1
80    Romano         5.1    1    1
81    Hudek          3.2    1    1
82    Darr           1.1    1    1

You'll notice a very prominent name (normally prominent when you consider Jays pitchers through the years) who is missing from this list. Jimmy Key pitched 1695 innings in a Toronto uniform, and allowed 165 homers - but he never gave up a grand slam. He didn't give up a grand slam while he was a Yankee, either. The only two he allowed came as an Oriole, to Jeromy Burnitz in 1997 and Ken Griffey in 1998. Luis Leal pitched almost 1000 innings for Toronto without allowing a slam. Jesse Jefferson, A.J. Burnett, Paul Quantrill, and Ted Lilly also dodged that bullet.

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