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Through the 2024 season, the top 24 players in career games pitched were all relief pitchers whose careers began after 1950, only two of whom were active before 1968; the top three pitchers are all left-handed. Jesse Orosco is the all-time leader in career games played as a pitcher with 1,252.
This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have accumulated the most innings pitched of all time. Cy Young is the all-time leader in innings pitched with 7,356, and the only pitcher to throw more than 7,000 innings. Pud Gavin is the only other pitcher in MLB history to throw more than 6,000 innings.
Cy Young holds the major-league record for innings pitched with 7,356 during his career.. In baseball, the statistic innings pitched (IP) is the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that have been put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game.
Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead. A starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win; if this ...
Most complete games Cy Young 749 Lowest earned-run average: Ed Walsh: 1.82 Lowest walks plus hits per inning pitched: Addie Joss.968 Most saves Mariano Rivera: 652 Highest win–loss percentage Spud Chandler: 71.7% Most games Jesse Orosco: 1,252 Most consecutive scoreless innings pitched Orel Hershiser: 59 [a]
Over the course of the 20th century, complete games became less common, to the point where a modern pitcher may pitch an entire season without throwing a complete game. (In the 2024 MLB season, 0.6% of starts were complete games.) [5] To put this in perspective, as recently as the 1980s, 10–15 complete games a year by a star pitcher was not ...
Joltin' Joe" actually hit in 57 straight MLB games – singling in the 1941 All-Star game held mid-streak [94] – and 73 out of 74 regular season games, starting a 17-game streak the day after his 56-game one ended. [95] He also holds the second longest streak in minor league baseball history, 61 games, set in 1933. [94]
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks