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The most strikeouts by a pitcher in an MLB game are 21, by Tom Cheney in September of 1962. He pitched a 16-inning complete game. Cheney had 13 Ks through nine innings that day.

Rod Carew was considered the most successful hitting against Nolan Ryan. He attributed his success to adjusting his stance when facing Ryan. It also helped that he batted left against the right-handed Ryan.

MLB records. Ryan holds 51 total MLB records, including: 5,714 career strikeouts (next-most is Randy Johnson with 4,875) 7 career no-hitters (next-most is Sandy Koufax with 4)

That excessive amount of time played, innings pitched, along with his unmatched strikeout abilities are why his record will never be broken.

Over nearly 145 years of professional baseball, no player was tougher to strike out than Hall of Fame shortstop Joe Sewell. In 7,132 career at-bats, Sewell heard the umpire say ?Strike three? just 114 times. That's one strikeout for every 63 at-bats, or once every 17 games, or in just .

That excessive amount of time played, innings pitched, along with his unmatched strikeout abilities are why his record will never be broken.

Seventy years ago on this date, he pitched one of the more ridiculous games in organized baseball history. The Pirates Minor Leaguer, at just 19 years old, struck out 27 batters, while giving up no hits, in a regulation nine innings. It's the only time that's ever been done at the professional level.

The backward K denotes that the batter was called out via a called third strike when using this notation rather than ?going down swinging?, which is the conventional forward-facing K in the score book. The reason is the batter was called out on strikes by the umpire.