In 1938, Laabs struck out five times in one game against Bob Feller, helping Feller set the all-time record with 18 strikeouts in a nine-inning game.
Metzger did not start the 1977 season well, walking 12 in 22.7 innings while only getting 6 strikeouts.
He pitched 3⅔ innings, allowing two hits, one base on balls, and three strikeouts before being replaced by Joaquín Benoit for the start of the eighth inning.
At the end of April, he led the American League in strikeouts and was tied for second in the majors with Dan Haren behind Tim Lincecum.
Several of his players - including Sam McDowell, Sonny Siebert, Luis Tiant and Steve Hargan - were still with the team in 1967 when they set a record for team strikeouts in a season.
The record for strikeouts in a game in all of professional baseball belongs to Russ Laribee of the minor league Pawtucket Red Sox, who in 1981 struck out seven times in a thirty-three inning baseball game.
On June 6, 2006, Schmidt struck out sixteen batters against the Florida Marlins, which tied the franchise record for most strikeouts in a single game, originally set by Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants on October 3, 1904, against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Reporting Sandy Koufax's then-record World Series pitching performance of 15 strikeouts (scoring symbol "K"), some newspapers bannered the story with "K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-KOUFAX!"
Through 2010, he was 5th all-time in career games (directly behind Dave Roberts), 8th in strikeouts (directly behind Barney Pelty), and 9th in wins (directly behind Barry Latman) among Jewish major league baseball players.
Scherzer had a dominant performance in Game 1 of the 2013 ALDS, recording 11 strikeouts and giving up just one hit through the first six innings, before surrendering a 2-run homer to Yoenis Céspedes.
In six career Series starts, he was 4-2 with 32 strikeouts and a low 1.79 earned run average, and is still remembered for striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in their consecutive at-bats in the 1934 All-Star Game.
Earp, who led a formidable Chicks pitching staff that included Alice Haylett (19–11) and Connie Wisniewski (16–14), finished second in strikeouts to Fort Wayne's Dorothy Collins (244), second in winning percentage to Muskegon's Doris Sams (.733), and made her first and only All-Star Team.
6' 6" Maximo Nelson from San Pedro de Macorís, in the Dominican Republic, led the league with 85 strikeouts; he pitched for the Gulf Coast Yankees in 2004 (posting a 6-5 record, with a 2.63 ERA).
The broadcast then returns to the ballpark where Sterling announces the player of the game (he previously did this at the end of the game broadcast), runs down whatever charitable donations are being made by various companies based on what the Yankees did in the game (scoring a certain amount of runs, strikeouts recorded, etc.), and then announces the winner of the "Cut Above the Rest" award, given to the player who had the highest on-base percentage for the game and sponsored by Supercuts.
In a game against St. Ambrose University that year, he set a school record for strikeouts in a nine-inning game (24).
Hughes played 2006 with Single-A Southwest Michigan, where in 114 games, he hit .233 with 3 HR, 39 RBI and 102 strikeouts in a down year.
Deer held the American League record for strikeouts in a season (186 strikeouts in 1987) until being passed by Jack Cust in 2008, and had at least 140 strikeouts on seven occasions.
He went 2-0 with 19 strikeouts and a 1.29 ERA in 14 innings of work in the 2002 Intercontinental Cup.
Vogelsong had a very strong outing this time scattering 5 hits and allowing 1 run in the 6th inning after the Giants set the tempo with a 4 run 2nd inning to break the game open and he created a new career-high 9 strikeouts on the night after he struck out Daniel Descalso with a foul tip.
Some pitchers who specialize in strikeouts have acquired nicknames including the letter "K." Dwight Gooden was known as "Doctor K" (back-referencing basketball star Julius Erving a.k.a. "Dr. J").
He led all pitchers in the 1988 Cup in strikeouts (32 in 27 1/3 IP), beating out the likes of Andy Benes, Ben McDonald, Charles Nagy, Jim Abbott, Hideo Nomo and Orlando Hernandez.
For the year, and his career, Funk finished with no decisions or saves over 8⅓ innings in eight games with six walks, two strikeouts (Mariano Duncan and Len Matuszek of the Los Angeles Dodgers), and the aforementioned 6.48 earned run average.
The pitcher who initially set the record of 14 strikeouts at Minute Maid Park was Bud Norris.
He led the league in strikeouts (9 ahead of runner-up Odrisamer Despaigne) and wins (tied with Yulieski González, Norberto González and Maikel Folch).
Yang started for South Korea in the semifinal game against Canada, facing future Mariners' pitching prospect Phillippe Aumont, and hurled three innings of two-hit, one-run ball with two strikeouts to help lead South Korea to a 6–1 victory.
As a senior at McKinney High School in 2010, he won 11 games with a 2.15 ERA and 90 strikeouts.
In a May 13, 2012, road game against the Boston Red Sox, McAllister started in place of injured pitcher Josh Tomlin and recorded a career-high 8 strikeouts in a 4-1 loss.