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Rank amongst leaders in career strikeouts. A blank field indicates a tie. Player (2025 Ks) Number of strikeouts during the 2025 Major League Baseball season. K: Total career strikeouts. * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bold: Denotes active player. [note 1]
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 strikeouts in Major League Baseball. During a record 27-year career, he struck out 5,714 batters. The American League record is held by Roger Clemens [4] (4,167 strikeouts), [5] while in the ...
Rube Waddell led the American League in strikeouts for six consecutive seasons (1902–1907). In 1908 and 1911, Ed Walsh was the American League strikeout champion. In 1959 and 1960, Jim Bunning led the American League in strikeouts; he finished in second place four times. Nolan Ryan has 5,714 career strikeouts, the most in Major League history.
Clayton Kershaw is currently No. 21 with 2,944 strikeouts, Chris Sale is No. 56 with 2,307 and Gerrit Cole is No. 71 with 2,157 Ks. MLB all-time strikeout list 1.
Justin Verlander's Hall of Fame résumé just got a little shinie. The Houston Astros ace passed the great Greg Maddux on the MLB all-time strikeout list, entering the top 10 with the 3,372nd ...
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] 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]
Sandy Koufax was the first pitcher to record three 300-strikeout seasons, including the National League record (and then-MLB record) of 382 in 1965. Rube Waddell's 349 strikeouts in 1904 were a modern MLB record for 62 years. He was also the first modern-era pitcher to record multiple 300-strikeout seasons, in 1903 and 1904.