"James Leland Barr" is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1971–1978, 1982–1983) and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels (1979–1980). He is perhaps best known for setting a record for consecutive batters retired (41, later tied by Bobby Jenks in 2007, and then broken by Mark Buehrle on July 28, 2009 Major League Baseball season#Reached/2009 and again by Yusmeiro Petit on August 28, 2014 Major League Baseball season#Reached/2014). Barr remains the only pitcher to retire as many as 41 consecutive batters in the course of only two games; his streak began in the third inning of a complete-game win and extended through the seventh inning of another complete-game win (Beurhle's streak included Mark Buehrle's perfect game/his perfect game and the starts before and after, while the streaks of Jenks and Petit included a number of relief appearances).

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It takes heart for a guy to be able to get into those situations and get the job done. He's been a big help to us. You want to put guys in that situation that are juniors or seniors and have been through the war a little bit because they understand what it's all about.

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He's really matured a lot from his freshman year to last year to now. I think it really helped him when we told him he was going to be a pitcher only and he didn't have to worry about swinging the bat and all that other stuff. He kind of worked on taking his pitching a little more seriously.

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