@Burnes16 ties Tom Seaver (1970) and Aaron Nola (2021) for the @MLB
On May 13, 1952 while pitching for the Class-D Bristol Twins, Ron Necciai tossed a no-hitter, striking out 27 in nine innings!
Only Nolan Ryan accomplished the feat more than once in his career and no player has ever struck out more than 21 batters in a game. The following list is kept separate from the above list of pitchers who have struck out 18 or more batters in a nine-inning game.
Ohtani struck out 11 batters and gave up two hits in Friday's 2-0 win over the Kansas City Royals at Angel Stadium. The game lasted 2 hours, 3 minutes. Ohtani also set a franchise record for ERA over five starts (0.64) and leads the majors.
Nolan Ryan is the all time leader in career strikeouts. Nolan Ryan has the most career strikeouts in Major League Baseball. During a record 27-year career, he struck out 5,714 batters.
The slugger's then-teammate, pitcher Mike Flanagan, told reporters after that 1991 event that six strikeouts would thereafter be known as a Horn. He added that if anyone ever strikes out seven times in one game, it will be a Horn of Plenty.
By striking out Brewers rookie outfielder Joey Weimer, Greinke became the fifth pitcher ever to strikeout 1,000 different players, joining Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens.
After striking out 27 batters in one minor league game in 1952, Ron Necciai was destined for the big leagues. When he was called up to the Pittsburgh Pirates in August of 1952, the Bucs' management – by way of locker selection – let Necciai know that he was ready for prime time.
Thanks to a David Bote lineout which ended the game's fifth frame, Randy Johnson remains the record holder in that regard with 13 straight outs via punchout. . @Burnes16 ties Tom Seaver (1970) and Aaron Nola (2021) for the @MLB record with 10 consecutive strikeouts.
The Red Sox' Johnny Damon became the only other major leaguer since 1900 to get three hits in an inning, when Boston whipped the Florida Marlins, 25-8, on June 27, 2003. Damon collected a single, double, and triple in the first inning as Boston scored a record 10 runs before recording an out.
Josh Willingham is the most recent player to hit two grand slams in one game, achieving the feat in 2009.
Chan Ho Park and the Los Angeles Dodgers found themselves on the wrong end of MLB history on April 23, 1999, when St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Fernando Tatis slugged two grand slams in the same inning. Before that point and in the time since, Tatis stands alone in accomplishing such a feat.
The "Olympic Rings" or platinum sombrero applies to a player striking out five times in a game. A horn refers to a player striking out six times in a game; the term was coined by pitcher Mike Flanagan after teammate Sam Horn of the Baltimore Orioles accomplished the feat in an extra-inning game in 1991.
Hayden Deal of the Rome Braves threw perhaps the first two-pitch, three-out inning in MiLB history.
Cubs Pitcher Kyle Hendricks Breaks Down His 81-Pitch Complete Game Shutout vs. the Cardinals. A pitching master class with The Professor.
As expected, only the hardest throwers in major league history have recorded the feat more than once: Sandy Koufax, Chris Sale and Max Scherzer (three times), and Lefty Grove, Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson (twice each).
Sandy Koufax holds the record for consecutive strikeouts, having been set down in 12 straight plate appearances in 1955.
Five players — Chuck Finley, A. J. Burnett, Zack Greinke, Craig Kimbrel, and Tyler Glasnow — have accomplished the feat more than once in their career; no player has ever struck out more than four batters in an inning.
1989 — Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers becomes the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters in a 2-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics. Ryan fans Rickey Henderson swinging on a 3-2, 96 mph fastball for No.
Necciai is best remembered for the unique feat of striking out 27 batters in a nine-inning game, which he accomplished while playing with the Class-D Appalachian League team, the Bristol Twins, on May 13, 1952. He is the only pitcher ever to do so in a nine-inning, professional-league game.
Of the 21 perfect games for which pitch counts are available, Addie Joss's was the most efficient–74 pitches, fewer than three per batter.
It's theoretically possible to record an arbitrary number of strikeouts in an inning, but the major league record is 4. The record is shared by over 50 different pitchers. Chuck Finley was the first pitcher in MLB history to record 4 strikeouts in an inning more than once, and he managed the feat 3 times.
On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s became the only pitcher to lose a complete game no-hitter in nine innings when he was beaten, 1–0, by the Cincinnati Reds. The winning run was scored by Pete Rose in the top of the ninth inning via an error, groundout, and another error.