which major baseball league pitcher has the lowest career earned run average
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Earned run average The all-time single-season record for the lowest ERA, according to www.mlb.com, the official website of Major League Baseball, is held by Dutch Leonard, who in 1914 had an earned run average of 0.96, pitching 224.2 innings with a win-loss record of 19-5.
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List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders Cy Young, the all-time leader in career wins. This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) pitchers with 200 or more career wins. In the sport of baseball, a win is a statistic credited to the pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead.
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GIF of the week: Clayton Kershawâs curveball Just weeks after teammate Josh Beckett tossed the first no-hitter of the season, Clayton Kershaw impressed baseball fans with one of the most dominating pitching performances in the modern baseball era, featuring a line of nine innings pitched, zero hits, zero walks and 15 strikeouts.
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- MLB: Top 20 Batters with the Most Strikeouts in a Season. Yesterday Sports List of the Day gave you the top 20 batters with the most career strikeouts, a list Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson sits comfortably atop. But when you look at the most strikeouts in a season – again the top 20 – Reggie Jackson doesn’t even make the list.
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- Dodgers pitchers led the Major Leagues with 22 shutouts and were second in the league with a 3.25 team ERA. That included Clayton Kershaw, who won his third consecutive ERA title at 1.83, the lowest in the NL since Greg Madduxs 1.63 in 1995, and was the clubs lone All-Star.
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- Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators holds the career record with 110 shutouts. In Major League Baseball, a shutout (denoted statistically as ShO or SHO) refers to the act by which a single pitcher pitches a complete game and does not allow the opposing team to score a run.
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Adjusted ERA+ While Bob Gibson has the lowest ERA in modern times (1.12 in the National League in 1968), the average ERA was 2.99 that year (the so-called Year of the Pitcher) and so Gibson's ERA+ is 258, sixth highest since 1900.
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Mariano Rivera Nicknamed  Mo  and  Sandman , Rivera spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons. A thirteen-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves (652) and games finished (952).
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- For 22 years, Ty Cobb was one of the most talented, feared and controversial players in the MLB with the Detroit Tigers. The Georgia Peach is best known for having the best career batting average in baseball history with a .366 total including a .420 average for 1911.
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Mike Jackson (right-handed pitcher) Jackson, a relief pitcher for the majority of his career, compiled a career earned run average (ERA) of 3.42, allowing 451 earned runs off of 983 hits, 127 home runs, and 464 walks while recording 1,006 strikeouts over 1,005 games pitched.fter spending four seasons with the Mariners, Jackson was traded, along with Bill Swift and Dave Burba, to the San Francisco Giants. The Mariners, in return for Swift, Burba, and Jackson, acquired outfielder Kevin Mitchell and pitcher Mike Remlinger.
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The Know-It-All's Guide to Life I think he's had a lot of really good at-bats but he doesn't have much to show for it.. Ramirez has started 16 of the team's 18 games at third base but will take a seat after making four straight starts. He's hit just .197/.197/.295 with one home run and six RBI in 61 at-bats.chaefer, who made the Brewers out of spring training, has not appeared in a game for the big club since being sent down in early May. He was 6 for 33 prior to his demotion. Herrera has had 99 at-bats with the Brewers this year. He had a productive stretch in mid-May, when he homered in three consecutive games.
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- Houston Astros @ Oakland Athletics. Dallas Keuchel, LHP. The lefty is the fourth pitcher in Major League history to go at least seven innings and allow two hits or fewer in each of his first two games of a season, joining Nolan Ryan (1979), Tom Phoebus (1970) and Lon Warneke (1934).
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Lou Brock Brock retired at the end of the season, having posted a .304 batting average in his last season at the age of 40. At the end of the season, he was named the National League Comeback Player of the Year —the first player to be so named in his final Major League season.
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Tim Lincecum After high school Lincecum went on to pitch for the University of Washington. In 2006 he finished with a 12–4 win-loss record and a 1.94 earned run average (ERA), 199 strikeouts, and three saves in 125⅓ innings as a Washington Husky.incecum was shut down in September as a precaution, due to his high inning count in his first full year of professional ball. Between the minors and the majors, he pitched a total of 177⅓ innings.
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List of Major League Baseball career WHIP leaders Below is the list of the top 100 Major League Baseball pitchers in Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) with at least 1,000 innings pitched. Addie Joss is the all-time leader with a career WHIP of 0.9678. Ed Walsh (0.996) is the only other player with a career WHIP under 1.0000.
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MLBâs Top 50 Home Run Hitters of All Time When veteran slugger Alfonso Soriano announced his retirement from baseball in 2014, after playing 16 years in the major leagues, his 412 home runs were just good enough to crack the top 50 in MLB history.
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Willard Hershberger Willard McKee Hershberger (May 28, 1910 – August 3, 1940) was an American baseball catcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1938 to 1940. In 160 career games, Hershberger recorded a batting average of .316 and accumulated 5 triples and 41 runs. He is the only major league player to date to commit suicide during the season. Born and raised in California, Hershberger attended Fullerton Union High School where he was a baseball standout.
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Former Atlanta Brave Tony Cloninger has grand memories of 50 years ago Sunday | Charlotte Observer Former Atlanta Brave Tony Cloninger Sr. is still the only pitcher in MLB history to hit two grand slams in one game. Still, the North Carolina native wants to be remembered for more than just one game. brmarks@charlotteobserver.com.
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With Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw Becomes First $200 Million Pitcher Clayton Kershaw won two National League Cy Young Awards, three earned run average titles and two strikeout titles and made three trips to the playoffs before turning 26 years old. Now he has another distinction: Kershaw is baseball’s first $200 million pitcher. Kershaw, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ ace left-hander, reached an agreement Wednesday to stay with the team for seven years and $215 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.
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Mike Jackson (right-handed pitcher) After battling arm injuries in the early 1990s, Jackson reestablished himself as a top relief pitcher for the Reds in 1995 and went on to pitch in the 1997 World Series for the Indians. After one-year stints with the Astros, Twins, and White Sox, Jackson retired from baseball in 2005.fter spending four seasons with the Mariners, Jackson was traded, along with Bill Swift and Dave Burba, to the San Francisco Giants. The Mariners, in return for Swift, Burba, and Jackson, acquired outfielder Kevin Mitchell and pitcher Mike Remlinger.
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Pelham pelhamcity@bellsouth.net. Pelham remembers Major John Pelham, the boy artillerist who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Kelly's Ford in 1863.
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- Cause Effect of Divorce Essay ...Marinelli C/E Question #7, November 29, 2010 The Causes of a High Divorce Rate In recent years, the divorce rate in the United States has been increasing. Marriage is a powerful factor in the typical American adult, and with the high divorce rate, that factor is becoming less important.
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Earned run average The lowest career ERA is 1.82, set by Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh. In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game).
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- There's lots of guys in there we've never heard of (at least from way back) that were pretty good, for a damn long time. And anyway, if you did want to base it around numbers, Hoffman was no slouch: 3/1 K/BB ratio, he did throw over 1000 innings and struck out over 1100, and was even second in Cy Young voting one year. I think the harder argument would be why he doesn't belong in the Hall.
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Mariano Rivera vs. the Red Sox: A retrospective Dustin Pedroia, who looks very much like the New York State Lottery's Little Bit O' Luck hasn't had much vs. Rivera, with a .083/.250/.083 career line. Besides those 18 blown saves, there are 64 successful attempts, highlighted by an identical postseason ERA and WHIP of 0.93. In twelve playoff appearances vs. Boston, Rivera has allowed all of two earned runs.