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List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders. Nolan Ryan is the all-time leader in career strikeouts. This list is for pitchers. For career strikeouts by batters, see List of Major League Baseball career strikeouts by batters leaders.
Reggie Jackson holds the record for the most career strikeouts by a batter with 2,597. Jim Thome [6] (2,548), Adam Dunn [7] (2,379), Sammy Sosa [8] (2,306), Alex Rodriguez [9] (2,287), Miguel Cabrera [10] (2,105), and Andrés Galarraga [11] (2,003) are the only other hitters to strike out over 2,000 times.
Career SO Leaders:1.Nolan Ryan+/5714/957, 2.Randy Johnson+/4875/691, 3.Roger Clemens/4672/213, 4.Steve Carlton+/4136/1881, 5.Bert Blyleven+/3701/514, 6.Tom Seaver+/3640/1552, 7.Don Sutton+/3574/1559, 8.Gaylord Perry+/3534/1220, 9.Walter Johnson+/3509/2534, 10. Justi
Nolan Ryan has 5,714 career strikeouts, the most in Major League history. His 11 seasons as a strikeout leader – second only to the 12 of Walter Johnson – includes nine seasons, between 1972 and 1990, as the American League strikeout leader.
Between the 2000 and 2009 seasons, Randy Johnson. struck out the most hitters, with 2,182 strikeouts. Johnson Vazquez Santana Martinez Sabathia Schilling Zito Mussina Oswalt Pettitte Burnett Halladay Millwood Peavy Clemens Hernandez Beckett Zambrano Lilly Wolf Hudson Wood Schmidt Colon Maddux Wakefield Sheets 0 200 400 600 800 1k 1k 1k 2k 2k 2k ...
Sandy Koufax was the first pitcher to achieve multiple games with 18 strikeouts, recording two in his career. Kerry Wood tied Roger Clemens' major league record of 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game on May 6, 1998. Max Scherzer tied Kerry Wood and Roger Clemens' major league record of 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game in 2016.
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Record Player # Most wins Cy Young: 511 Most losses Cy Young 316 Most no-hitters Nolan Ryan: 7 Most strikeouts Nolan Ryan 5,714 Most shutouts Walter Johnson: 110 Most pickoffs Steve Carlton: 144 Most innings pitched Cy Young 7,354 + 2 ⁄ 3: Most hit batsmen Gus Weyhing: 278 Most home runs allowed Jamie Moyer: 522 Most complete games Cy Young 749