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How rare is a complete game? ›

In modern baseball, the feat is much more rare and no pitcher has reached 30 complete games in a season since 1975; in the 21st century, a pitcher has thrown 10 or more complete games in a season only twice.

Charles Henry "Red" Barrett (February 14, 1915 – July 28, 1990) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played 11 total career seasons in the National League. He played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves and St. Louis Cardinals. He once pitched the shortest complete game by fewest pitches (58) in history.

On May 13, 1952 while pitching for the Class-D Bristol Twins, Ron Necciai tossed a no-hitter, striking out 27 in nine innings! After that summer, Necciai was drafted to fight in the Korean War, but was quickly discharged because of his ulcer problems.

Jack Taylor of the St. Louis Cardinals had a National League record (and overall Major League record) thirty-nine consecutive complete games in 1904 while Bill Dinneen of the Boston Americans had an American League record thirty-seven consecutive complete games — also in 1904.

Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators holds the career record with 110 shutouts. The ultimate single achievement among pitchers is a perfect game, which has been accomplished 24 times in over 135 years, most recently by Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees on June 28, 2023.

It doesn't get much more rarer than 'Gamma Attack'. How rare are we talking? There is literally ONE copy of this game ever made and it's in the hands of uber-collector Anthony DeNardo. The game, which was created by a short-lived studio called Gammation Products, only made peripherals for the Atari 2600.

And his control improved almost every year. In 889.1 innings from 1994-1997, Maddux walked just 102 batters – including 23 intentional passes. Maddux used every edge he had and continued to dominate the batters as the Braves continued to amass NL West titles.

Greg Maddux didn't throw any perfect games in his career.

How many regular-season perfect games have been thrown by Greg Maddux? StatMuse has game-level data for perfect games going back to the 1908 season.

Van Buren was pumped as he walked off the mound, pleased that he executed his pitches and got out of a jam. But he said he still had no idea what he'd accomplished. "I didn't realize that I struck out five guys in an inning until I walked back to the dugout," he said.

No and there never will be. The record for the most strikeouts by one pitcher in a 9 inning game is 20 (it has been done 4 times). It is 21 for an extra inning game. Now consider that over 225,000 games have been played in MLB history and only 5 times has one pitcher struck out over 20 batters.

Who struck out the least in MLB history? ›

He hit a career-high 11 home runs in 1932. Sewell struck out 114 times in 7,132 career at-bats for an average of one strikeout every 62.5 at-bats, second only to Willie Keeler (63.1). He also holds the modern single-season record for fewest strikeouts over a full season, with 3, set in 1932.

Dale Long homered in eight consecutive games to set the mark in 1956. Mattingly tied the record in '87, and Ken Griffey Jr. tied it again in '93. "Someday somebody will break it, and they'll forget me," Long told the Chicago Tribune in 1986.

The last time a pitcher threw for over 300 innings came all the way back in 1980 when Steve Carlton finished the season with 304. All of these innings allowed Ryan to throw 222 complete games during his career. For his entire career, Ryan averaged 10 complete games per season.

In 1987, Don Mattingly set the record for most grand slams in a single season, with six. These were the only grand slams of his career. Alex Rodriguez has 25 career grand slams, the most by any player in MLB history.

Definition. A pitcher earns a complete game if he pitches the entire game for his team regardless of how long it lasts. If the game is shortened by rain or if it lasts into extra innings, it counts as a complete game if the pitcher was the only pitcher to record an appearance for his team.

There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.

Modern Triple A games from large studios average 10 to 12 hours to complete a story campaign, with that number growing to 40 hours in open world games.