Robert James Bruce is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. On April 19, 1964, Bruce struck out three batters on nine pitches in the eighth inning of a 6-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bruce became the seventh National League pitcher and the 12th pitcher in major league history to accomplish the nine-strike/three-strikeout half-inning, only one day after Sandy Koufax achieved the same feat.



