| Questioned about his 43 whiffs in 250 at-bats, Furcal says strikeouts are part of the game. |
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| Blyleven led the league in complete games once, shutouts three times, innings pitched twice and strikeouts once. |
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| It is not about home runs and strikeouts, Hall of Fame hitters and knockdown pitchers. |
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| He worked eight innings and gave up five runs on nine hits while recording nine strikeouts and four walks. |
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| In his career, he issued 70 walks in 160 innings pitched and collected 50 strikeouts. |
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| Scouts rave about your raw power, but you've also piled up a lot of strikeouts. |
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| A fast worker who relies on the defense rather than strikeouts, Baldwin is displaying superb control. |
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| Bert led the league that season in innings pitched, complete games, shutouts, and strikeouts. |
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| Lolich pitched for 16 seasons, and had a lifetime record of 217-191, including 195 complete games, 41 shutouts and 2,832 strikeouts. |
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| He consistently is around the plate and can retire batters with strikeouts or by forcing them to hit the ball on the ground. |
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| He started the year in the bullpen, where he was issuing more walks than strikeouts. |
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| With nearly 700 plate appearances in 2000, Sweeney whiffed just 67 times and had more walks than strikeouts for the second consecutive season. |
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| Ten men won the privilege of batting against baseball's all-time strikeouts king as part of a promotion for a candy bar. |
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| The next year, he finished second among all minor league pitchers with 187 strikeouts. |
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| Only two pitchers with 3,000 or more strikeouts failed to win a league strikeout title. |
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| While Smith, a sidearmer, doesn't have the velocity to pile up strikeouts, he helps himself by fielding his position well. |
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| So he was farmed out for a month with instructions to delay his swing a bit, go to right field more often, improve his bunting and reduce strikeouts. |
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| The big righthander had been working on a streak of five outings of 10 or more whiffs, including back-to-back games of 15 strikeouts heading into his start vs. Arizona. |
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| In his fourth start of the season last night, Weaver pitched five innings with no earned runs, allowing two hits and no walks against seven strikeouts. |
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| Pitching categories are wins, saves, earned run average and a complicated ratio measuring strikeouts as opposed to hits, which I can never get straight. |
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| What that record means during a time in baseball history where strikeouts are coming easier and easier to pitchers is debateable. |
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| They scored a run when Mark Teixeira walked, but that play was sandwiched by strikeouts to Rodriguez and Swisher. |
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| In this day of home runs and strikeouts, I would like to know how many players have hit 40 home runs in a season without fanning more than 50 times? |
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| His 382 strikeouts in 1965 are still a National League record. |
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| The only outcomes pitchers can claim full responsibility for are strikeouts, walks and home runs. |
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| Even though Valenzuela led the National League in complete games, shutouts, innings pitched and strikeouts, Seaver, as you mention, had a better won-lost record. |
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| The 12-year-old Sementelli has dominated every level at Sherman Oaks Little League, compiling a 42-7 overall record with 495 strikeouts. |
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| With the strikeouts rising, Jackson was open to new ideas. |
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| As for the immaculateness this year, it's true that the increased tendency to swing for home runs comes with an additional likelihood that one will miss: strikeouts have also spiked to record rates. |
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| Known as one of the best control pitchers in history, Jenkins's outstanding record includes more than 3,000 strikeouts and fewer than 1,000 walks, a rare combination of power and control. |
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| Brummett went eightinnings, allowing six hits and one walk with six strikeouts. |
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| Darvish has now had five games out of his 23 starts this season with 14 or more strikeouts. |
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| Darvish remains the strikeout king of Major League Baseball with 207 strikeouts in his 23 games so far this season. |
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| Will their hitters' strikeouts catch up to them? |
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| Colon finished his night with strikeouts of Scott Hatteberg and Erubiel Durazo, the first punch-out clocked at 97 mph on the McAfee Coliseum radar gun, the latter at 95 mph. |
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| But he started Friday's game by retiring the first six batters he faced, with three groundballs in the first inning and three strikeouts in the second. |
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