Elroy Leon Face (born February 20, 1928), nicknamed "the Baron of the Bullpen",[a] is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher.

Face played baseball at Averill Park High School, and then served in the U.S. Army from February 1946 to July 1947.

[7] In 1954, he was sent to the Pirates minor league team, the New Orleans Pelicans of the Double A Southern Association, to learn an off-speed pitch.

His 18 relief wins remain the major league record, topping Jim Konstanty's previous mark of 16 set in 1950.

[7] Face entered Game 1 with runners on first and second and none out in the eighth inning, leading 6–2; he retired the side, striking out Mickey Mantle and Bill Skowron and getting Yogi Berra to fly out,[21] before giving up a 2-run Elston Howard home run in the ninth but getting a game-ending double play for a 6–4 win.

In Game 5, he was again brought in with two men on and one out in the seventh, this time leading 4–2, and retired eight of the last nine batters, allowing only a walk to Mantle.

[21] In the final Game 7 he was brought in with two on and none out in the sixth inning, with a 4–1 lead which he surrendered via an RBI single by Mantle and a three-run home run by Berra.

Also in 1962, Face passed Clem Labine to take over the NL record with 95 career saves, and then broke Johnny Murphy's major league mark of 107.

[8] In 1967, he passed Warren Spahn's mark of 750 to become the NL's all-time leader in games pitched; his record would stand until Kent Tekulve moved ahead of him in 1986.

[7] He signed as a free agent with the Montreal Expos in 1969, earning five saves in 44 games before ending his major league career.

[11] His NL record of 193 saves was not broken until 1982, when Bruce Sutter passed him; Dave Giusti broke his Pirates single-season mark with 30 in 1971.

Face's 802 games with the Pirates equaled Walter Johnson's total with the Washington Senators for the most by any pitcher with a single club;[8] the record was broken by Trevor Hoffman of the San Diego Padres in 2007.

[11] During his baseball career, Face, in keeping with a family tradition extending back two generations, worked as a carpenter during the off-season.

[29] He is a member of the Pirates Hall of Fame, is the team's all-time leader in pitching appearances (802), and holds the National League record for wins by a relief pitcher (96).