Ryan pitched in 807 games, threw 222 complete games, and had 61 shutouts. He threw an incredible 5,386 innings and struck out 5,714
During Nolan Ryan's 27-year Major League Baseball career, he had a lifetime total of 222 complete games, an average of 8 complete games per season. 1973 was his best season with 26 complete games and his worst season was 1966 when he had 0 complete games.
Consider 46 years ago today — June 14, 1974. Nolan Ryan of the California Angels threw 235 pitches but was not involved in the decision in the Angels' 4-3, 15-inning victory over the Boston Red Sox.
In 12 Major League seasons, he had a career record of 165-87, a 2 . 76 ERA, 2,396 strikeouts, 137 complete games and 40 shutouts . Koufax was the MVP and Cy Young Award winner in 1963 and also won Cy Young Awards in 1965 and '66 .
Over the 154 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 235,500 games played, there have been 24 official perfect games by the current definition. No pitcher has thrown more than one.
Nolan Ryan didn't throw any perfect games in his career.
Ryan hit his second and final career home run in a 12–3 win on May 1, 1987, against the Atlanta Braves. In nine seasons as a pitcher with the Astros (his longest tenure with any team), Ryan compiled a 106–94 record in 282 starts, a 3.13 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, with 796 walks and 1,866 strikeouts in 1,854 innings.
Use of the term "immaculate inning" first appeared in newspaper reporting after 2000. Seven pitchers have accomplished the feat more than once, including Hall-of-Famers Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, and Randy Johnson, and active pitchers Chris Sale, Max Scherzer, and Kevin Gausman.
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In 1897, the Chicago Colts of the National League defeated the Louisville Colonels, 36–7. The modern record (i.e., post-1900) for margin of victory was set in 2007, when the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 30–3.
The lowest single-season ERA in league history was posted by Tim Keefe, whose 0.86 ERA in 105 innings pitched for the National League's Troy Trojans in 1880 led his closest competitor by .
Ed Walsh holds the MLB earned run average record with a 1.816. Addie Joss (1.887) and Jim Devlin (1.896) are the only other pitchers with a career earned run average under 2.000.
So what Lonnie Smith did against him is amazing. A right-handed batter, Smith has the best career batting average and best career on-base percentage of any hitter with at least 30 plate appearances against Ryan. Smith hit . 500 (12-for-24) with five walks versus Ryan.
Nolan Ryan: 108.1 MPH
Just one of a long list of accomplishments in his historic career.
At the time of his death, Gibson still led the Cardinals franchise's pitching records in wins (251), games started (482), complete games (255), shutouts (56), innings pitched (3,884.1) and strikeouts (3,117) along with a 2.91 ERA.
Necciai is the only professional pitcher to record 27 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, and a ball from that 7-0 win over the Welch Miners – which Necciai donated to the Hall of Fame in 2001 – is on display in the Museum's One for the Books exhibit.
Mark McGwire, STL, 1998 (70 homers): Roger Maris' single-season record of 61 homers had stood since 1961, when he broke Ruth's 1927 record of 60. But that record was no match for McGwire in 1998, who hit 70 home runs to set a single-season record.
Unfortunately, it ended his career a little earlier than he was planning. That excessive amount of time played, innings pitched, along with his unmatched strikeout abilities are why his record will never be broken. Randy Johnson ranks second on the all time list, only 839 strikeouts behind Nolan.
More than 9,000 men have taken the mound in a big league game, but what pitcher Johnny Vander Meer accomplished more than three quarters of a century ago by tossing back-to-back no-hitters is considered by many one of the game's most unbreakable records.
Nolan Ryan holds the record for no-hitters in the major leagues with seven. A no-hitter is a rare accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff—only 320 have been thrown in MLB history since 1876, an average of about two per year.
MLB fans are stunned with Nolan Ryan's incredible curveball highlights: "The knee buckling grim reaper" "Hang it in the Louvre" Nolan Ryan is a Hall of Fame pitcher and an eight-time All-Star. He dominated offensive lineups for an astonishing 27 seasons to the tune of a career 3.19 ERA and 324 wins.
The rarest achievement for a pitcher is a perfect game, in which not a single player on the opposing team gets on base. Because there are no hits in a perfect game, all perfect games are no-hitters. And it's impossible to score without getting on base, of course, so a perfect game is also a de facto shutout.
"At the beginning of every major-league game, an average pitcher facing a lineup of average hitters has a . 000983 percent chance of pitching a perfect game," according to numbers crunched by smart people in a 2012 SBNATION article. That's about 1 perfect game for every 34 seasons, according to SBNATION.
History[edit] The pitcher who holds the record for the most no-hitters, with seven in his career, is Nolan Ryan. His first two came with the California Angels in 1973, one on May 15th and the other on July 15th. He had two more with the Angels; the third on September 28, 1974 and the fourth June 1, 1975.