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Last week, in a 5-0 victory over the World Champion Oakland A's, Ryan pitched the sixth no-hit game of his career, two more than anyone else in baseball history. His strikeout total (5,152 after the Monday no-hitter) is more than a thousand higher than Steve Carlton's all-time second best. He has allowed the fewest hits per nine innings (6.56) of any player in the game. He has struck out 19 Hall of Famers, 44 Most Valuable Players and six father-son combinations. He is the first pitcher to throw no-hitters in three...
...Seahawks were only able to get one hit against Spring Garden's pitcher Dave Tittlemeyer, who struck out six batters. Croteau was not one of Tittlemeyer's strikeout victims...
...Back to 1904 and the American League. Philadelphia's Rube Waddell led the league in strikeouts and became the first pitcher in the 20th century to chalk up two consecutive 300-plus strikeout seasons. His strikeout tally in 1904 was the most by any pitcher in a single season until Sandy Koufax fanned 382 batters in 1965. How many batters did Waddell strike...
There remains among them one cereal-box hero, one shining exception to the inevitability of decay: Nolan Ryan, the greatest strikeout pitcher in history, 16 days my senior and still blessed with the fearsome fast ball that brought him to the cusp of yet another no-hitter this spring. Ryan, I reckon, will be the last survivor in this private tontine, but that honor could also go to Tommy John, baseball's Old Man River. Lured out of retirement like a veteran CIA agent asked to perform a final mission, John, 45, has miraculously emerged as the anchor...
...After a strikeout and a walk to Co-Captain Frank Morelli, the Crimson narrowed the Jumbos' 3-1 lead to one run when pinch-hitter Tom Konjoyan--battling back from a 1-2 count--drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk to drive in Caprio...