Blake Snell and Chris Sale top the all-time leaderboard for strikeouts per nine innings.
San Francisco Giants pitcher Blake Snell glances at notebook in the dugout after pitching in the fifth inning of their MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. Not only were pitching performances from Blake Snell and Chris Sale on Monday night at Oracle Park electric, they were also microcosms.
The game featured 33 total strikeouts — more than any other MLB game this season — a bug of today’s boom-or-bust brand of baseball. Both Snell and Sale epitomize it as two of the defining starters of the era: strikeout specialists who have taken advantage of the launch angle revolution and advancements in advanced pitching science.
They’re not the best starting pitchers of the past 15 years — that’d be Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw. But in a way, they represent the ways baseball has evolved the most. Not every pitcher dominates the top of the zone and reaches back for maximum effort to prioritize power over pitchability. Likewise, not every hitter aims for the fences with every swing. There are still great players, like Logan Webb and Luis Arraez, who buck new-age trends. But they’re becoming outliers.. The top-10 on the list is littered with active or recently retired pitchers. Current Giants lefty Robbie Ray is third. Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer rank fourth and fifth.
Reticent of spotlight, Madison Bumgarner can’t avoid being center of attention at SF Giants’ World Series reunion One of the common gripes about modern baseball is that too much action has been removed. When there’s fewer balls in play, there’s fewer web gems, fewer stolen bases and less strategy.
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