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Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. (born January 31, 1947), nicknamed "the Ryan Express", is an American former professional baseball pitcher and sports executive. Over a record 27-year playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB), Ryan pitched for the New York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers.
He is one of only ten pitchers ever to achieve both 300 wins and 3,000 strikeouts, and is the only pitcher to record more than 300 wins, more than 3,000 strikeouts, and fewer than 1,000 walks (exactly 999 walks overall).
Invention of the curveball is widely credited to Candy Cummings.However, another claimant was Fred Goldsmith, Cummings' rival when the two played in the International Association for Professional Base Ball Players in 1877–78—Goldsmith with the pennant-winning London Tecumsehs and Cummings with the Lynn, Massachusetts, Live Oaks.
Angels relief pitcher Ben Joyce throws a 105.5-mph pitch as he strikes out the Dodgers' Tommy Edman to end the ninth inning on Tuesday in Anaheim. It was the third-fastest pitch recorded. (Mark J ...
At just 20 years old, Sasaki now owns the record for consecutive strikeouts in a single game. 20-year-old Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki sets record in 19-strikeout perfect game Skip to main content
Cy Young [1] [2] [3] holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson [4] is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn [5] has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their careers. [6]
Greene beat out a pitcher by the name of Jacob deGrom for the record. Most 100.0+ mph pitches in game, pitch-tracking era (since 2008): **Tonight Hunter Greene: 39**
Blyleven recorded 3,701 career strikeouts, the fifth-most in MLB history. He won 287 games, 27th-most all-time, and pitched 4,970 innings, 14th-most all-time. A renowned curveball pitcher, Blyleven was a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. In 2011, Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.