For the 11th consecutive season, Major League Baseball is going to set a record for strikeouts. The new marks are not simply incremental, either. In 2008, hitters struck out 32,884 times. At the current pace in 2018, they will strike out 43,163 times, which would obliterate the record of 40,104 set last year. This is a game careening toward a reckoning borne of inaction, and when nearly 23 percent of plate appearances end with a third strike, the culprit is clear.
https://sports.yahoo.com/baseball-strikeout-era-better-worse-050031337.html
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
today in triple-a, a guy tied the memphis franchise record (set by lance lynn in 2010!) with 16 strikeouts (in eight innings). and a different guy tied the pacific coast league record by striking out eight consecutive batters -- something that had been done only three times previously in the 115-year history of the league.
(one of the three was accomplished by john 'THE COUNT' montefusco in 1974)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 00:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.fangraphs.com/tht/the-lyons-share-of-strikeouts/
someone who does not care about Ks
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 27 April 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link