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[35] [36] Radbourn struck out 441 batters that season, the highest total for a Triple Crown winner. Walter Johnson holds the highest win total by an AL pitching Triple Crown winner, with 36 in 1913. Among AL pitching Triple Crown winners, Pedro Martínez registered the highest season strikeout total, with 313 in 1999. Since 1901, the major ...
The following Major League Baseball players have won the American League Pitching Triple Crown by leading the American League in earned run average, wins, and strikeouts in the same season. Pages in category "American League pitching Triple Crown winners"
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Baseball portal; A Major League Baseball Triple Crown is recorded by: a hitter who leads either the American League or National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in in the same season. a pitcher who leads either the American League or National League in earned run average, wins, and strikeouts in the same season.
It was one of the most dominant seasons in major league history as Gooden captured the pitching triple crown, with 24 wins, a 1.53 ERA and 268 strikeouts across 276⅔ innings.
Félix Hernández won 19 games in 2009, one of three pitchers to do so. CC Sabathia started Game 1 of the 2009 World Series after winning 19 games for the Yankees that season. Justin Verlander also led the American League in strikeouts and innings pitched in 2009. Johan Santana, 2006 AL Triple Crown winner
It was the first time since 2011 that someone won the pitching triple crown in both leagues. There have been 25 occasions when a pitcher led his league in wins, strikeouts and ERA among qualifiers — and a Cy Young Award followed all 16 times it's happened since the prize was first presented in 1956.
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]