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In baseball statistics, a pitcher is credited with a game started (denoted by GS) if he is the first pitcher to pitch for his team in a game. Cy Young [1] [2] [3] holds the Major League Baseball games started record with 815. Young is the only pitcher in MLB history to start more than 800 career games.
A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even if he is not credited with a game started or an inning pitched. The pitcher is the player who pitches the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...
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.
Listed below are all MLB players with at least 1,000 games pitched. [4] The first player to reach the mark was Hoyt Wilhelm, in May 1970. [5] LaTroy Hawkins is the most recent player to reach the mark, having achieved it in September 2014. [6] As of April 2023, no active player has reached the milestone; Kenley Jansen leads active players, with ...
G – Games played: number of games where the player played, in whole or in part; GS – Games started: number of games a player starts; GB – Games behind: number of games a team is behind the division leader; Pythagorean expectation: estimates a team's expected winning percentage based on runs scored and runs allowed
A starting pitcher, then, may be credited with a game played even as he is not credited with a game started or an inning pitched. Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons until Hank Aaron would break the record.
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]
If a player is listed in the starting lineup as the team's pitcher, but is replaced before facing an opposing batter, the player is credited with a game pitched but not a game started; there have been instances in major league history in which a starting pitcher was removed before his first pitch due to an injury, perhaps suffered while batting ...