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During a September 7, 1974 game against the Chicago White Sox at Anaheim Stadium, Ryan became the first Major League pitcher to have his pitch speed measured during a game. A primitive radar gun clocked a ninth-inning fastball at 100.8 miles per hour (162.2 km/h) when it was 10 feet (3.0 m) in front of home plate .
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]
In the 11th inning (after nearly 200 pitches), Ryan struck out Rich Reese for his 16th of the game and 383rd of the season, a record that still stands over five decades.
Mullane pitched through 4,531 1 ⁄ 3 innings, 24th all-time, throwing 343 wild pitches and averaged an errant pitch in 7.6 percent of those innings. Nolan Ryan is second on the list of most wild pitches with 277. The active leader in wild pitches as of October 2024 is Clayton Kershaw with 103, less than a third of Mullane's total. [43]
Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan holds the Major League Baseball record for career strikeouts, with 5,714. But he may have made his best pitch yet early Thursday morning when his group threw out a $385 ...
Nolan Ryan threw seven no-hitters in MLB, the most of any pitcher. Below is a list of Major League Baseball no-hitters , enumerating every no-hitter pitched in Major League Baseball history . The list also includes no-hit games that were broken up in extra innings or were in shortened games, although they have not been considered official no ...
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.
Their total is the lowest number of strikeouts accumulated to lead a league in Major League Baseball history (although Jacob deGrom only struck out 104 National League batters in 2020, the season was shortened by a pandemic to 60 games, or 37.04% of a regular season; had that season run a full 162 games, that would have been a net of 281 ...