Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 1 st Inning. Charlie Hough. Matt Young. Chuck Finley. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 2 nd Inning. Darren Dreifort. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 3 rd Inning.
Herb Score. Don Wilson. Sid Fernandez. Aaron Harang. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 4 th Inning. Zack Greinke. Jake Arrieta. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 5 th Inning. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 6 th Inning. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 7 th Inning. Bill Gullickson. Ramon Martinez. Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 8 th Inning.
Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher Through the 9 th Inning. Matt Kilroy. Old Hoss Radbourn. Hugh Daily. Rube Waddell. Sandy Koufax. He fanned 19 and a reliever fanned another in this memorable duel against Luis Tiant, in which Ryan pitched 13 innings and also walked 10 batters. He also fanned 15 and walked seven and gave up six runs in a complete game win in April. Imagine how many pitches he must have thrown in those games.
There have been 12 other games where a pitcher recorded 18 strikeouts in nine innings or fewer. One of those came from Bill Gullickson, whose franchise record Scherzer broke. With the Expos in , Gullickson fanned 18 Cubs on Sept. The MLB strikeout rate that year was just 4. Gullickson was a rookie and threw pretty hard, but must have lost his velocity fairly early in his career because he was never a big strikeout guy and, in fact, recorded just seven games of 10 or more strikeouts in his career.
Maybe the most impressive high-strikeout game relative to his league came courtesy of year-old Bob Feller in He fanned 18 Tigers in a year in which the average K rate was just 3. Of course, it was also the final day of the season and the first game of a doubleheader with nothing on the line. And Charlie Gehringer, who struck out just 21 times in games that year, wasn't in the lineup. And the Tigers won anyway, So, to answer the question in the headline: I still go with Wood's game against a strong Astros lineup.
His game score of remains the highest ever in nine innings. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Which strikeout game was most impressive? The Big Unit really got short-changed. During a Cy Young season for the Diamondbacks that saw him win 21 games and win his lone World Series ring, Johnson struck out 20 Reds. Unfortunately for him, his one run allowed was par with Cincinnati starter Chris Reitsma's one run in eight innings, and the game went into extras.
Johnson was relieved after nine innings, but MLB record books still recognize his performance as coming in an extra inning game, despite accomplishing his strikeout task before the tenth. Arizona did win the game, in 11 innings. By: Jeff Eisenband -. Here are the MLB's six single-game instances of pitchers striking out 20 hitters: Max Scherzer May 11, , win vs. Kerry Wood May 6, , win vs. Roger Clemens April 29, , win vs. Roger Clemens September 18, , vs.
Detroit Tigers Clemens reached 20 strikeouts a second time, ten years later, in almost completely opposite settings. Tom Cheney September 12, , win vs.
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