Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger share the record for the longest complete game, achieved when they pitched against each other in a 26-inning marathon that ended in a 1–1 tie on May 1, 1920.
Cy Young is the all-time leader in innings pitched with 7,356, and the only pitcher to throw more than 7,000 innings.
Robbie's pitching line: 17 innings, 16 hits, 6 runs, 3 walks, 5 strikeouts. “We won the game when Del Ennis hit a home run off Bob Chipman leading off our 17th inning,” recalled Roberts in an interview many years ago.
Melky Cabrera drove him in with a single to win the game. With that, as pointed out by MLB.com's Todd Zolecki, Lee became the first pitcher to go 10 innings in a game his team didn't win since Bret Saberhagen did it for the New York Mets against the San Diego Padres in 1994.
Necciai is the only professional pitcher to record 27 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, and a ball from that 7-0 win over the Welch Miners – which Necciai donated to the Hall of Fame in 2001 – is on display in the Museum's One for the Books exhibit.
Over the 154 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 235,500 games played, there have been 24 official perfect games by the current definition. No pitcher has thrown more than one.
In the past, it was not uncommon to see a pitcher throw a complete game, even if he wasn't doing well, something that would NEVER happen now, as bullpens were not as developed. Pitchers would sometimes pitch on back-to-back days or even back-to-back games of those more-common doubleheaders.
Both starting pitchers, Brooklyn's Leon Cadore and Boston's Joe Oeschger, pitched the entire 26 innings of the game. Somehow, they only allowed one run apiece. "If a pitcher couldn't go the distance," Oeschger would tell the Sarasota Herald-Tribune decades later, "he soon found himself some other form of occupation."
Most innings pitched in a season – 680
No pitcher has even thrown half of White's record total for innings in a season since Phil Niekro in 1979, with 342. The last 300-inning season to date was by Steve Carlton the following year, with 304.
The pitcher's name? Cy Young -- yeah, that guy. On this day 118 years ago, Young gave up his first base hit in over two weeks, snapping a streak of 24 consecutive hitless innings that, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, remains unchallenged as the Major League record.
Add in a third immaculate inning and you tie Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax for the most in MLB history. Sale remains just one of three active pitchers with multiple immaculate innings to their names, alongside Max Scherzer and Kevin Gausman.
The Pirates' starting pitcher that night was left-hander Harvey Haddix. Little did he know that by the end of this particular contest, his name would be etched in baseball history for all the wrong reasons.
Jack Taylor completed 187 consecutive games he started between 1901 and 1906. Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger share the record for the longest complete game, achieved when they pitched against each other in a 26-inning marathon that ended in a 1–1 tie on May 1, 1920.
Against the Yankees on July 20, Wood started both ends of a doubleheader, one of two pitchers to do so since Don Newcombe in 1950 (the other was Al Santorini in 1971) and the last pitcher to do so since. After he failed to get any outs in the first game and took the loss, Tanner decided to let him start Game 2.
"On August 10, 1944, Charlie (Red) Barrett, then with the Boston Braves, used only 58 pitches in beating Bucky Walters of Cincinnati, 2-0. There are no authentic records on the fewest balls pitched in a game since the beginning of professional baseball, but Barrett's 58 is the lowest we have on our files."
The record for the fewest pitches thrown in a perfect game is held by Addie Joss, a pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians in the early 1900s. Joss threw a perfect game in only 74 pitches against the White Sox on October 2, 1908: an average of 8.2 pitches per inning. Joss must have thrown plenty of strikeouts.
There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
No major league player has ever thrown two perfect games, although Jean Faut of the AAGPBL accomplished the feat with perfect games in 1951 and 1953.
Despite this, he never pitched a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award; both were largely attributed to his high walk rate. Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in MLB games in four different decades.
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.
Hayden Deal of the Rome Braves threw perhaps the first two-pitch, three-out inning in MiLB history.
Pitchers Hitting Grand Slams. Pitchers have contributed significantly to the grand slam story. It was a National League hurler, Bill Duggleby of the Phils, who was the only player ever to hit a bases loaded home run in his first at bat in the majors. This feat was accomplished on April 21, 1898.