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Walter Johnson, the all-time leader in shutouts. In Major League Baseball, a shutout (denoted statistically as ShO or SHO) refers to the act by which a single pitcher pitches a complete game and does not allow the opposing team to score a run. If two or more pitchers combine to complete this act, no pitcher is awarded a shutout, although the ...
A shutout is defined by Major League Baseball rule 10.18: . A shutout is a statistic credited to a pitcher who allows no runs in a game. No pitcher shall be credited with pitching a shutout unless he pitches the complete game, or unless he enters the game with none out before the opposing team has scored in the first inning, puts out the side without a run scoring and pitches the rest of the ...
He holds the all-time MLB record with 110 career shutouts. During his early pitching days, Babe Ruth, who is most known for his hitting prowess, led the American League with nine shutouts for the Boston Red Sox in 1916. Jim Palmer was the last American League pitcher to record 10 shutouts in one season when he did so for the Baltimore Orioles ...
A Maddux, in baseball statistics, is when a pitcher throws a shutout of nine or more innings with fewer than 100 pitches. Writer Jason Lukehart invented the statistic in 2012 and named it after his favorite baseball player, Greg Maddux. [1]
Luis Castillo threw seven shutout innings to continue Seattle’s run of starting pitching dominance and the Mariners' bullpen held on for a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday night.
As of 2021, the current active leader in shutouts is Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose 15 shutouts ties him for 463rd all time. Only four pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era threw as many as 60 career shutouts, with Warren Spahn leading those pitchers with 63. [10]
Sale started slowly in 2019 (6.30 ERA in April), but he still looked like his best self on occasion: a career-high 17 strikeouts against Colorado in May, a 12-strikeout shutout in Kansas City in ...
The two-way superstar threw a one-hitter in the opener Thursday for his first career MLB shutout, then homered twice in the second game. Ohtani’s 397-foot drive Friday came off Blue Jays right ...