Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pitchers could no longer throw 400 innings in a season, as the home run meant a run could be scored at any time. The league leader in innings pitched often threw somewhat more than 300 innings. Occasionally, innings pitched would spike, as in the early 1970s, when Wilbur Wood pitched 376 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings in 1972 and then 359 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings ...
Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two outs count as two-thirds of an inning. 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 ...
In baseball, earned run average (ERA) is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers, calculated as the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched. A pitcher is men by a baserunner who reached base while batting against that pitcher, whether by hit, base on balls or "walk", or being hit by a pitched ball; [1] an earned run can be charged after the pitcher is relieved if he ...
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.
K/9 (or SO/9) – Strikeouts per 9 innings pitched: strikeouts times nine divided by innings pitched; K/BB (or SO/BB) – Strikeout-to-walk ratio: number of strikeouts divided by number of base on balls; L – Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win
This page was last edited on 20 November 2024, at 17:54 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The career record for ERA+ (with a minimum of 1,000 innings pitched) is held by Mariano Rivera, a closer whose career ERA+ is 205. Upon retirement in 2013, with an ERA+ of 194 in his final season, Rivera's career record of 205 surpassed the record among retired players of 154, held by Martínez, bumping Jim Devlin , a pitcher in the 1870s, to ...
The single-season record for the lowest ERA is held by Dutch Leonard, who in 1914 had an earned run average of 0.96, pitching 224.2 innings with a win–loss record of 19–5. [2] The all-time record for the lowest single season earned run average by a pitcher pitching 300 or more innings is 1.12, set by Bob Gibson in 1968.