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Cy Young is the all-time leader in complete games with 749 and the only player to complete more than 700 games. Pud Galvin is second all-time with 646 career complete games and the only other player to complete more than 600 games. No active pitcher has yet to even reach 30 career complete games. [2]
Most complete games Cy Young: 749 Lowest earned-run average: Ed Walsh: 1.82 Lowest walks plus hits per inning pitched: Addie Joss.968 Most saves Mariano Rivera: 652 Highest win–loss percentage Spud Chandler: 71.7% Most games Jesse Orosco: 1,252 Most consecutive scoreless innings pitched Orel Hershiser: 59 [a]
List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders; List of Major League Baseball career games finished leaders; List of Major League Baseball career complete games leaders; List of Major League Baseball career hit batsmen leaders; List of Major League Baseball career bases on balls allowed leaders
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks
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. Aaron's record was subsequently broken by Carl Yastrzemski in 1983 and finally broken the following season by Pete Rose, who currently holds the record for most games played at 3,562.
A starting pitcher is not credited with a GF for pitching a complete game. Mariano Rivera [1] [2] [3] is the all-time leader in games finished with 952. Rivera is the only pitcher in MLB history to finish more than 900 career games. Trevor Hoffman [4] and Lee Smith [5] are the only other pitchers to finish more than 800 games in their careers.
Over the course of the 20th century, complete games became less common, to the point where a modern pitcher may pitch an entire season without throwing a complete game. (In the 2024 MLB season, 0.6% of starts were complete games.) [5] To put this in perspective, as recently as the 1980s, 10–15 complete games a year by a star pitcher was not ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Los Angeles, California. The list of the Dodgers' team records includes batting and pitching records for both individual players and the team as a whole.