career postseason era leaders for starting pitchers minimum 10 games finished

Christy Mathewson had the best ERA by a starting pitcher in the postseason when pitching in 10+ games, with an ERA of 0.97.

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Data note: Earned Run Average, Games Pitched: player game data complete from 1903 · postseason
Data note: Data: Retrosheet

	NAME	ERA	G	W	L	W%	GS	SO	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	R	HR	BB	HBP	GF	IBB	TBF	WP	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	WHIP	BABIP	RA	H/9
1	Christy Mathewson C. Mathewson	0.97	11	5	5	.500	11	48	10	4	0	101.2	75	11	22	1	10	1	0	3	391	1	4.25	0.89	4.80	0.09	12.3	2.6	0.84	.224	1.95	6.64
2	Waite Hoyt W. Hoyt	1.85	11	6	4	.600	11	47	6	1	0	82.2	81	17	28	2	22	1	0	0	342	0	5.12	2.40	2.14	0.22	13.7	6.4	1.25	.293	3.05	8.82
3	Curt Schilling C. Schilling	2.23	19	11	2	.846	19	120	4	2	0	133.1	104	33	37	12	25	3	0	0	525	1	8.10	1.69	4.80	0.81	22.9	4.8	0.97	.252	2.50	7.02
4	Zack Wheeler Z. Wheeler	2.23	11	4	3	.571	11	76	0	0	0	68.2	37	17	19	5	13	5	0	0	258	1	9.96	1.70	5.85	0.66	29.5	5.0	0.73	.201	2.49	4.85
5	Madison Bumgarner M. Bumgarner	2.27	14	8	3	.727	14	82	3	3	0	95.1	69	24	25	8	17	5	0	1	371	0	7.74	1.60	4.82	0.76	22.1	4.6	0.90	.236	2.36	6.51
6	Ken Holtzman K. Holtzman	2.30	12	6	4	.600	12	39	2	1	0	70.1	60	18	22	2	18	0	0	1	285	1	4.99	2.30	2.17	0.26	13.7	6.3	1.11	.257	2.82	7.68
7	Chief Bender C. Bender	2.44	10	6	4	.600	10	59	9	1	0	85.0	65	23	28	1	21	2	0	0	331	1	6.25	2.22	2.81	0.11	17.8	6.3	1.01	.258	2.96	6.88
8	Jon Lester J. Lester	2.44	22	9	7	.563	22	121	0	0	0	143.2	110	39	41	14	37	3	0	0	570	3	7.58	2.32	3.27	0.88	21.2	6.5	1.02	.243	2.57	6.89
9	Dave McNally D. McNally	2.51	12	6	4	.600	12	65	6	2	0	89.2	65	25	30	12	33	1	0	2	361	5	6.52	3.31	1.97	1.20	18.0	9.1	1.09	.212	3.01	6.52
10	Cliff Lee C. Lee	2.52	11	7	3	.700	11	89	3	0	0	82.0	66	23	27	2	10	1	0	0	320	2	9.77	1.10	8.90	0.22	27.8	3.1	0.93	.294	2.96	7.24
11	John Smoltz J. Smoltz	2.55	27	13	4	.765	27	177	2	1	0	187.1	151	53	58	14	63	3	0	6	770	6	8.50	3.03	2.81	0.67	23.0	8.2	1.14	.267	2.79	7.25
12	Yoshinobu Yamamoto Y. Yamamoto	2.57	11	7	1	.875	11	58	2	0	0	63.0	42	18	20	5	14	3	0	0	248	1	8.29	2.00	4.14	0.71	23.4	5.6	0.89	.220	2.86	6.00
13	Dave Stewart D. Stewart	2.62	18	10	4	.714	18	71	3	1	0	130.2	94	38	42	12	46	4	0	0	526	4	4.89	3.17	1.54	0.83	13.5	8.7	1.07	.209	2.89	6.47
14	Red Ruffing R. Ruffing	2.63	10	7	2	.778	10	61	8	0	0	85.2	74	25	32	4	27	0	0	2	352	0	6.41	2.84	2.26	0.42	17.3	7.7	1.18	.269	3.36	7.77
15	Orlando Hernandez O. Hernandez	2.64	14	9	2	.818	14	93	0	0	0	95.1	70	28	30	8	51	4	0	2	400	1	8.78	4.81	1.82	0.76	23.3	12.8	1.27	.254	2.83	6.61
16	Orel Hershiser O. Hershiser	2.71	18	8	3	.727	18	91	4	2	0	126.1	102	38	43	8	40	5	0	3	511	6	6.48	2.85	2.28	0.57	17.8	7.8	1.12	.256	3.06	7.27
17	Tommy John T. John	2.71	13	6	3	.667	13	46	3	1	0	86.1	80	26	36	6	24	4	0	1	359	4	4.80	2.50	1.92	0.63	12.8	6.7	1.20	.265	3.75	8.34
18	Whitey Ford W. Ford	2.71	22	10	8	.556	22	94	7	3	0	146.0	132	44	51	8	34	3	0	2	594	4	5.79	2.10	2.76	0.49	15.8	5.7	1.14	.273	3.14	8.14
19	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	2.73	23	11	7	.611	23	161	0	0	0	138.1	105	42	51	20	37	3	0	1	558	1	10.47	2.41	4.35	1.30	28.9	6.6	1.03	.252	3.32	6.83
20	Jim Palmer J. Palmer	2.75	15	7	3	.700	15	88	6	2	0	118.0	97	36	36	10	48	2	0	3	493	5	6.71	3.66	1.83	0.76	17.8	9.7	1.23	.252	2.75	7.40
21	Barry Zito B. Zito	2.83	10	6	3	.667	10	46	0	0	0	60.1	50	19	19	7	23	3	0	1	252	1	6.86	3.43	2.00	1.04	18.3	9.1	1.21	.249	2.83	7.46
22	Steve Avery S. Avery	2.84	12	5	2	.714	12	58	0	0	0	73.0	55	23	25	6	24	0	0	4	290	3	7.15	2.96	2.42	0.74	20.0	8.3	1.08	.243	3.08	6.78
23	Nathan Eovaldi N. Eovaldi	2.84	12	9	1	.900	12	73	0	0	0	69.2	59	22	22	5	15	1	0	2	286	0	9.43	1.94	4.87	0.65	25.5	5.2	1.06	.281	2.84	7.62
24	Mike Cuellar M. Cuellar	2.85	12	4	4	.500	12	56	4	0	0	85.1	66	27	32	7	31	0	0	3	349	1	5.91	3.27	1.81	0.74	16.0	8.9	1.14	.231	3.38	6.96
25	Chris Carpenter C. Carpenter	3.00	18	10	4	.714	18	68	1	1	0	108.0	104	36	43	11	36	6	0	2	461	1	5.67	3.00	1.89	0.92	14.8	7.8	1.30	.274	3.58	8.67

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