The Worst Strikeout Rates by Pitchers with 13-Strikeout Games

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On September 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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Earlier today, noted contact specialist Doug Fister struck out 13 Indians in the Tigers’ 4-2 win. The game raised Fister’s career strikeout per 9 innings (K/9) to 5.4, which is pretty low for a 13-strikeout pitcher. That’s still more than twice the strikeout rate of the record-holder, though.

Overall, Fister is the 297th pitcher in MLB history (since 1919) to have a 13-K game. Of those, his K/9 mark ranks only as the 73rd lowest. It’s unusual for a pitcher with that low of a K rate to strike out 13, but it’s far from unheard of.

Here are the 25 pitchers to have a 13-K game despite striking out less than a batter every 2 innings in their careers (4.5 K/9).

Rk	Player	SO/9	From	To	G	GS	IP	BB	SO	ERA	ERA+
1	Sugar Cain The best solution payday loans	2.54	1932	1938	178	137	987.1	569	279	4.83	96
2	Ray Benge The best solution payday loans	3.14	1925	1938	346	248	1875.1	598	655	4.52	96
3	Red Faber The best solution payday loans	3.24	1914	1933	669	483	4086.2	1213	1471	3.15	119
4	Urban Shocker The best solution payday loans	3.30	1916	1928	412	317	2681.2	657	983	3.17	124
5	Si Johnson The best solution payday loans	3.31	1928	1947	492	272	2281.1	687	840	4.09	92
6	Ken Raffensberger The best solution payday loans	3.37	1939	1954	396	282	2151.2	449	806	3.60	110
7	Thornton Lee The best solution payday loans	3.62	1933	1948	374	272	2331.1	838	937	3.56	119
8	Lon Warneke The best solution payday loans	3.69	1930	1945	445	343	2782.1	739	1140	3.18	119
9	Al Javery The best solution payday loans	3.70	1940	1946	205	147	1142.2	452	470	3.80	93
10	Pete Alexander The best solution payday loans	3.81	1911	1930	696	600	5190.0	951	2198	2.56	136
11	Bill Werle The best solution payday loans	3.83	1949	1954	185	60	665.1	194	283	4.69	90
12	Saul Rogovin The best solution payday loans	3.95	1949	1957	150	121	883.2	308	388	4.06	96
13	Cliff Melton The best solution payday loans	4.09	1937	1944	272	179	1453.2	431	660	3.42	110
14	Roy Parmelee The best solution payday loans	4.13	1929	1939	206	145	1120.1	531	514	4.27	90
15	Bob Shawkey The best solution payday loans	4.17	1913	1927	488	333	2937.0	1018	1360	3.09	114
16	Carl Hubbell The best solution payday loans	4.20	1928	1943	535	433	3590.1	725	1677	2.98	130
17	Dick Bosman The best solution payday loans	4.28	1966	1976	306	229	1591.0	412	757	3.67	93
18	Tommy John The best solution payday loans	4.29	1963	1989	760	700	4710.1	1259	2245	3.34	111
19	Max Surkont The best solution payday loans	4.30	1949	1957	236	149	1194.1	481	571	4.38	89
20	Charlie Leibrandt The best solution payday loans	4.37	1979	1993	394	346	2308.0	656	1121	3.71	109
21	Warren Spahn The best solution payday loans	4.43	1942	1965	750	665	5243.2	1434	2583	3.09	119
22	Bill Hallahan The best solution payday loans	4.43	1925	1938	324	224	1740.1	779	856	4.03	102
23	Harry Harper The best solution payday loans	4.46	1913	1923	219	171	1256.0	582	623	2.87	105
24	Bill Gullickson The best solution payday loans	4.50	1979	1994	398	390	2560.0	622	1279	3.93	98
25	Ron Herbel The best solution payday loans	4.50	1963	1971	331	79	894.1	285	447	3.82	95

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com

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There are many marginal pitchers on the list, but there are also 4 Hall of Famers: Red Faber, Pete Alexander, Carl Hubbell, and Warren Spahn. Two others (Early Wynn and Robin Roberts) just missed the list. Not to mention longtime successful big leaguers like Tommy John, Urban Shocker, Thornton Lee, and Charlie Liebrandt. I guess the big takeaway is that if you pitch long enough, you’ll eventually have a big-strikeout game, no matter how little adeptness you have in that area.

Most of the pitchers on the list did the bulk of their work in an era in which strikeouts were far less prevalent than today. Still, though, each of them had a 13-strikeout game. That’s pretty amazing in some of these guys’ cases.

For instance, Sugar Cain (what a great name) made 137 starts in his career. Aside from his 13-K game, his career high was 7; he reached 5 strikeouts in only 6 of those starts. I have no idea how he struck out 13 in one game, but it happened. That’s part of what makes baseball so fascinating: the frequent occasions in which the inexplicable happens. Or, as they say, “you can’t predict ball

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