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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).
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 throw more than 7,000 innings.
Thus, it is possible for a pitcher to record more than three strikeouts in an inning. [3] As a result of this rule, 93 different pitchers have struck out four batters in a half-inning of a Major League Baseball (MLB) game, the most recent being Tyler Glasnow of the Tampa Bay Rays on July 7, 2023.
The following is a list of single-game baseball records and unusual events. The following criteria are used for inclusion: The following criteria are used for inclusion: Only events occurring within a single plate appearance , inning , or game are included; cumulative or aggregate records achieved over more than one game are not listed.
Chris Sale is the second pitcher in MLB history to record multiple immaculate innings in the same season.
Carrasco finished the 2016 season with an 11–8 record and 3.32 ERA in 25 starts, recording 150 strikeouts in 146 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings. Carrasco with the Indians in 2017. In the fifth inning of a July 7, 2017, game against the Detroit Tigers, Carrasco pitched an immaculate inning, striking out the side on the
Max Scherzer's "immaculate inning" against the Rays on Tuesday put him in the elite company of four Hall of Fame pitchers.
An immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters on nine pitches total. With only 117 in MLB history, an immaculate inning is rarer than a no-hitter or a cycle, even though it ...