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    In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat. It means the batter is out,...
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    This list is for pitchers. For career strikeouts by batters, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders The following list...
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    In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 3,000 strikeout club is the group of 19 pitchers who have struck out 3,000 or more batters in their careers. Walter...
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  • In baseball statistics, walk-to-strikeout ratio (BB/K) is a measure of a hitter's plate discipline and knowledge of the strike zone. Generally, a hitter...
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    Nolan Ryan (category American League strikeout champions)
    of 324–292 (.526) and was an eight-time All-Star. He has 5,714 career strikeouts, an MLB record that is 839 more than runner-up Randy Johnson. Similarly...
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    In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 300 strikeout club is a group of pitchers who have struck out 300 or more batters in a single season. In the modern...
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  • baseball statistics, strikeout-to-walk ratio (K/BB) is a measure of a pitcher's ability to control pitches, calculated as strikeouts divided by bases on...
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    batters. For career strikeouts by pitchers, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders In baseball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs...
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    Justin Verlander (category American League strikeout champions)
    the Monarchs' and Colonial Athletic Association's career records for strikeouts. At the 2003 Pan American Games, Verlander helped lead the United States...
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    Randy Johnson (category American League strikeout champions)
    as one of the most dominant pitchers of his era, leading his league in strikeouts nine times, and in earned run average, winning percentage, and complete...
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  • There are currently 99 pitchers in the 1,000 Strikeout Club: Shawn Andaya broke the original strikeout record by Amy Unterbrink during her 1987 campaign...
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    In baseball, a strikeout occurs when a pitcher throws three strikes to a batter during his time at bat. Twenty different pitchers have struck out at least...
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    left-handed after fracturing his arm twice in his youth. Wagner's career 11.9 strikeouts per nine innings pitched (K/9) is the highest of any major league pitcher...
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    Max Scherzer (category National League strikeout champions)
    nine-inning single-game strikeout record with 20, making him the second player to achieve both a no-hitter and 20 strikeouts over nine innings; in the...
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  • Strikeouts For Troops is a national non-profit founded in 2005 by Barry Zito to help injured US Troops and their families by providing 'the comforts of...
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    Clayton Kershaw (category National League strikeout champions)
    recorded 139 strikeouts in 64 innings pitched. In a playoff game against Northwest High School of Justin, Texas, Kershaw pitched an all-strikeout perfect game;...
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    leader in strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher. On April 30, 2019, he became the seventeenth pitcher in MLB history to reach 3,000 strikeouts. When he retired...
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  • In baseball statistics, strikeouts per nine innings pitched (abbreviated K/9, SO/9, or SO/9IP) is the mean of strikeouts (or Ks) by a pitcher per nine...
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    an ERA of 4.78 in 26+1⁄3 innings with 37 strikeouts and 30 games for Norfolk, with a 2.98 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 45+1⁄3 innings. In the pandemic shortened...
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    Pedro Martínez (category American League strikeout champions)
    compile over 3,000 career strikeouts with fewer than 3,000 innings pitched in his career. As of 2023, Martínez's career strikeout rate of 10.04 per nine...
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    K
    to represent a strikeout. A forwards oriented K represents a "strikeout swinging"; a backwards oriented K () represents a "strikeout looking". As an...
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    In baseball, the strikeout is a statistic used to evaluate pitchers. A pitcher earns a strikeout when he puts out the batter he is facing by throwing...
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    Yu Darvish (category American League strikeout champions)
    MLB in strikeouts with 277 and finishing fourth in the AL in earned run average (ERA) at 2.83. In April 2014, Darvish reached the 500-strikeout mark in...
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    2022, in which he tied the NPB record for strikeouts in one game and set a new record for consecutive strikeouts. Sasaki is from Rikuzentakata in the Iwate...
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    out in an era where strikeouts were continually on the rise. He never struck out more than 86 times and never posted a strikeout percentage higher than...
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    Bob Veale (category National League strikeout champions)
    top strikeout pitchers in the National League during his tenure with the Pirates. The two-time All-Star player was the National League strikeout leader...
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    Steve Carlton (category National League strikeout champions)
    eligibility. Nicknamed "Lefty", Carlton has the second-most lifetime strikeouts of any left-handed pitcher (4th overall), and the second-most lifetime...
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    Curt Schilling (category National League strikeout champions)
    000 strikeout club and has the highest strikeout-to-walk ratio of any of its inactive members. He is tied at third place for the most 300-strikeout seasons...
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    Sasaki tied a NPB single-game record with 19 strikeouts and set an NPB record with 13 consecutive strikeouts. Rōki Sasaki set a Japanese high school record...
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    Chris Sale (category American League strikeout champions)
    2012 to 2018 and led the American League (AL) in strikeouts in 2015 and 2017. After reaching 300 strikeouts in a single season for the first time in 2017...
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