Nearly 20 years ago Greg Harris, a journeyman reliever, finally fulfilled his dream to pitch with each hand in a major league game. In the ninth inning of a loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Sept. 28, 1995, Harris, then with the Montreal Expos, cam e into the game as a right-hander and retired Reggie Sanders on his first pitch. He switched to his left arm to walk Hal Morris and retire Eddie Taubensee, then was back to his right to induce a groundout from Bret Boone.
Harris’s ability to exploit matchup advantages might have seemed revolutionary, but the experiment did not last long.