Bruce Michael Berenyi (born August 21, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher from 1980–1986. Early years Berenyi's uncle was MLB pitcher Ned Garver. Berenyi played basketball as well as baseball at Fairview High School in Sherwood, Ohio. While attending Glen Oaks Community College, Berenyi was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the nineteenth round of the 1975 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign. After a year at Northwest Missouri State University, he was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round (3rd overall) of the June Secondary draft. Cincinnati Reds He went 37-30 with a 3.07 earned run average and 519 strikeouts over five seasons in the Reds' farm system to earn a mid-season call up to the majors in . His major league debut against the Houston Astros went poorly; making the start, he retired just one of seven batters, and was pulled with four runs already scored, and runners on first and second. Reliever Mario Soto allowed both inherited runners to score before retiring the next two, giving Berenyi six earned runs in just a third of an inning. Berenyi earned his first career win against the New York Mets on July 18. He held the Mets scoreless with seven strikeouts through seven before allowing the first three batters he faced in the eighth to reach. The Mets had pushed a run across, and had runners on first and third when Berenyi exited the game in favor of Tom Hume. Hume allowed both inherited runners to score, giving Berenyi three earned runs in seven innings on the day. Young starters Berenyi, Soto, Frank Pastore and Mike LaCoss, behind veteran future Hall of Famer Tom Seaver, pitched the 1981 Reds to a Major League Baseball-best 66-41 record. However due to a split-season format, caused by the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, the Reds finished in second both halves of the season and thus failed to make the playoffs. Berenyi was 4-2 with a 5.01 ERA when he pitched a one-hit shutout against the Montreal Expos to lower his ERA to 4.31 as the players headed into the strike. Berenyi ran into some hard luck in the second half of the season, and was just 4-4 despite dropping his ERA to 2.64. Overall, he was 9-6 with a 3.50 ERA and 106 strikeouts in 20 starts. His 77 walks led the National League. Berenyi