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This is a list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers who have accumulated the most innings pitched of all time. Cy Young is the all-time leader in innings pitched with 7,356, and the only pitcher to throw more than 7,000 innings. Pud Gavin is the only other pitcher in MLB history to throw more than 6,000 innings.
The "plus start" (QS+) – same as quality start while excluding starts where the pitcher allowed three earned runs in fewer than seven innings. Starts of at least six innings, but fewer than seven innings, would still qualify when no more than two earned runs were allowed (two earned runs in six innings is an ERA of 3.00).
To accomplish this record, Ryan played the most seasons (27) in MLB history, [33] as well as being both second in career innings pitched in the live-ball era, and fourth among pitchers who have completed their careers in strikeouts per nine innings. The next closest player is Randy Johnson, who has 839 fewer strikeouts at 4,875. [36]
In 1969, when Tom Seaver won the Cy Young pitching more than 270 innings and Bob Gibson threw more than 300, starters averaged about 6.5 innings per start. By 2019, more than a full inning had ...
Gilbert leads MLB in innings per start, an underrated statistic nowadays. Tanner Houck, Red Sox (1st) Houck has been a huge part of the Boston pitching renaissance that has the Red Sox firmly in ...
A starting pitcher must complete five innings of work in order to qualify for a "win" in a game he starts.Under NCAA baseball rules, which govern intercollegiate baseball, a starting pitcher who pitches fewer than five innings can still earn a win if he pitches for a certain amount of time that is determined before the start of the game.
In most leagues, if the score is tied after the final scheduled inning, the game goes into extra innings until an inning ends with one team ahead of the other. In Japanese baseball, however, games end if tied after twelve innings (or, in postseason play in Nippon Professional Baseball, fifteen innings). For the 2011 and 2012 NPB season, a game ...
Over the next four seasons while making 94 total starts, Sheets averaged more than 6 ⅓ innings per start. ... the 12th-most by any pitcher in a nine-inning game in MLB history. In 55 years as a ...