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The following list is of the top 100 pitchers in career strikeouts in Major League Baseball. In baseball, a strikeout occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time at bat. Strikeouts are associated with dominance on the part of the pitcher and failure on the part of the batter. Nolan Ryan [1] [2] [3] has the most career ...
César Gerónimo is the only player struck out by two pitchers for their 3,000th strikeout: Gibson in 1974 and Ryan in 1980. [4] Ten 3,000-strikeout pitchers are also members of the 300-win club. [5] Seven members were named to the All-Century Team, a list of MLB's best 100 players; fans later elected four of them as starters.
Johnson's 2001 season was the 2nd time in MLB history where a starting pitcher had more than twice as many strikeouts in a season (372) as hits allowed (181) (first accomplished by Pedro Martinez in the 2000 season with 284 strikeouts and 128 hits and later also accomplished by Max Scherzer in 2017, and both Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander in ...
Pete Rose is the all-time MLB hits leader with 4,256 hits. Listed are all Major League Baseball players who have reached the 2,000 hit milestone during their career in MLB. Pete Rose holds the Major League record for most career hits, with 4,256. Rose and Ty Cobb, second most, are the only players with 4,000 or more career hits.
His 11 seasons as a strikeout leader – second only to the 12 of Walter Johnson – includes nine seasons, between 1972 and 1990, as the American League strikeout leader. [180] Three-time strikeout champion Johan Santana won the American League's last pitching triple crown in 2006. [181] Scott Kazmir's 239 strikeouts led the American League in ...
Across 1999 and 2000, Martínez allowed 288 hits and 69 walks in 430 innings, with 597 strikeouts, a 0.83 WHIP, and a 1.90 ERA. Some baseball pundits believe that given the era in which Martínez pitched—during the peak of the Steroid Era , in a league with a designated hitter , with hitter-friendly Fenway Park as his home field—his ...
Reggie Jackson, the all-time leader in strikeouts by a batter This list is for batters. For career strikeouts by pitchers, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders. In baseball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat.
Cap Anson was the first MLB player to reach 3,000 hits, although his precise career hit total is unclear. [5] [a] Two players—Nap Lajoie and Honus Wagner—reached 3,000 hits during the 1914 season. Ty Cobb did so in 1921 and became the first player in MLB history to reach 4,000 hits in 1927, ultimately finishing his career with 4,191.