Nolan Ryan is the all-time leader in strikeouts in Major League Baseball. He told the record with 5,714 strikeouts.
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Nolan Ryan is the all time strikeout leader with 5,714 career strikeouts. Randy Johnson is second with 4,875, and just announced his retirement after the 2009 season.
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In the modern era, the leader is Nolan Ryan, who had 383 strikeouts with the California Angels in 1973.
If you are talking about pitchers and who has the most K's, the answer is Nolan Ryan with 5,714 strikeouts. If you are talking about batters who have struck out at the plate, the leader is Reggie Jackson with 2,597 strikeouts.
Nolan Ryan with 5,714 strikeouts
For pitchers, Nolan Ryan has 5,714 career strikeouts. For batters, Reggie Jackson has 2,597 strikeouts.
Nolan Ryan struckout 5,714 batters during his MLB career. Lincecum currently has (as of August 2, 2009) 606 career strikeouts with 191 strikeouts in the 2009 season. He has started 22 games in 2009 and last season started 33, therefore, he has about 11 starts left in 2009. Prorating his strikeouts for these 11 starts, he would wind up with 286 strikeouts for the 2009 season which would give him 691 strikeouts for his career. This would mean he would have to strikeout 5,024 more batters in his career to break Ryan's record. Over 20 more seasons, he would have to average 251.2 strikeouts per season to accomplish this.
For the stat "Strikeouts per 9 Innings" for pitchers that have pitched at least 1000 innings the all time leader, through games played on September 22, 2009 is Randy Johnson with 10.61 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (4872 strikeouts in 4132 1/3 innings pitched).Second all time is Kerry Wood with 10.39 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (1466 strikeouts in 1270 1/3 innings pitched) and third is Pedro Martinez with 10.05 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (3152 strikeouts in 2823 1/3 innings pitched).
Ryan Howard holds the record for most strikeouts for a batter in a World Series with 13 in 2009. Bob Gibson holds the record for most strikeouts for a pitcher with 35 in 1968.
Pitcher: Bob Gibson with 3117. Batter: Lou Brock with 1449.