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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.
29 hits allowed in an extra-inning game. Number of occurrences: 1. Eddie Rommel (17 innings), July 10, 1932. Oldest pitcher to win a game. Jamie Moyer, age 49 years, 151 days, May 16, 2012. Most innings pitched by a relief pitcher in one game. Zip Zabel, 18 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings. June 17, 1915; Fastest recorded pitch thrown by a pitcher in a game.
The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history over three days in 1981. The game lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time.
An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine. [1] This has happened 115 times in Major League history and has been accomplished by 105 pitchers (80 right-handed and 25 left-handed).
The most innings pitched in a live-ball season (since 1920) was Wilbur Wood's 376 2 ⁄ 3 innings in 1972. [41] No pitcher has even thrown half of White's record total for innings in a season since Phil Niekro in 1979, with 342. The most recent 300-inning season was by Steve Carlton the following year, with 304.
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. Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two outs as two-thirds of ...
On Saturday, May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played to a 1–1 tie in 26 innings, the most innings ever played in a single game in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). The game was played at Braves Field in Boston before a crowd estimated at 4,000.
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.