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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 innings pitched. It is determined by multiplying the number of strikeouts by nine, and dividing by the number of innings pitched.
In baseball, a strikeout occurs when a pitcher throws three strikes to a batter during his time at bat. [1] Twenty different pitchers have struck out at least 18 batters in a single nine-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) game, [a] the most recent being Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals on May 11, 2016. [4]
The highest game score in a nine-inning game in Nippon Professional Baseball history is 106, which Rōki Sasaki achieved on April 10, 2022 by pitching a perfect game with a league record-tying 19 strikeouts. This game score is higher than any achieved in a nine-inning game in MLB history. [15]
Major League Baseball has made the games faster, the bases bigger and defense a little bit harder. Now, if it could only do something about those stubborn strikeouts. There's little doubt that MLB ...
Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Because the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and thus both compiling and compiling statistics .
The player with the highest single regular season K/BB ratio through 2022 was Minnesota Twins pitcher Phil Hughes in 2014, with a ratio of 11.625 (186 strikeouts and 16 walks). [4] He is followed by Bret Saberhagen (11.00 in 1994) and Cliff Lee (10.28 in 2010). [2]
The best measure of strikeout prowess isn't actually K/9. A better option — and a record that could be broken in 2023 — is K%.
In baseball, a strikeout occurs when a pitcher throws three strikes to a batter during his time at bat. [1] Under Rules 6.05 and 6.09 of the Official Rules of Major League Baseball, a batter becomes a runner when a third strike is not caught by the catcher with no runner on first base or when there are two outs. [2]