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Some examples of high pitch count games include a 26-inning game on May 1, 1920 where Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston pitched an estimated 345 and 319 pitches; [8] also, Nolan Ryan threw 164 in a 1989 game, aged 42. [17] Stats LLC began tracking pitch counts in 1988, and MLB keeps official data since 1999.
6 wild pitches in one game. Number of occurrences: 3. [22] Most recently, Bill Gullickson, October 4, 1982. Bert Cunningham of the 1890 Players' League threw five wild pitches in a single inning. 26 hits allowed in a game. Number of occurrences: 1. Allan Travers, May 18, 1912. 29 hits allowed in an extra-inning game. Number of occurrences: 1.
Roy Halladay is the only player to have thrown an extra-inning Maddux, throwing 99 pitches in 10 innings on September 6, 2003. [ 1 ] Since Lukehart coined the term in 2012, Henderson Álvarez (left) and Max Fried (right) are tied with the most Madduxes with four apiece as of May 2024 [update] .
Only reliever Aroldis Chapman has thrown faster pitches, touching 105.8 mph in 2010 and 105.7 mph in 2016. Ben Joyce's 105.5 MPH pitch is the fastest strikeout pitch in the pitch-tracking era ...
Per research from Baseball Prospectus’ Pitch Info unit, the average MLB starter throws 4.23 different pitches at least 5% of the time. That average hasn’t changed much over the past decade ...
SVO – Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer
Clayton Kershaw, a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching in a game versus the New York Mets in 2015.. In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.
An average pitcher strikes out about 5 batters per nine innings while a power pitcher will often strike out one or more every inning. [ 1 ] The prototypical power pitcher is Hall of Fame member Nolan Ryan , who struck out a Major League Baseball record 5,714 batters in 5,386 innings.