highest career strikeout per game pitcher

Bob Dresser and Art Thompson are tied for the most career strikeouts per game pitched, with 8.

	NAME	SO/G	SO	G	W	L	W%	GS	ERA	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	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Bob Dresser B. Dresser	8	8	1	0	1	.000	1	3.00	1	0	0	9.0	12	3	6	0	0	0	0		38	0	8.00	0.00		0.00	21.1	0.0	1.33	.400	6.00	104	0.89	29	12.00	2.1
2	Art Thompson A. Thompson	8	8	1	0	1	.000	1	6.75	1	0	0	8.0	10	6	11	0	3		0		38	2	9.00	3.38	2.67	0.00	21.1	7.9	1.63		12.38	226	2.40	92	11.25	0.1
3	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	7.89	4,875	618	303	166	.646	603	3.29	100	37	2	4135.1	3,346	1,513	1,703	411	1,497	190	7	37	17,067	109	10.61	3.26	3.26	0.89	28.6	8.8	1.17	.291	3.71	75	3.18	73	7.28	554.3
4	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	7.75	589	76	38	17	.691	76	2.58	0	0	0	471.1	357	135	150	31	140	13	0	12	1,888	16	11.25	2.67	4.21	0.59	31.2	7.4	1.05	.292	2.86	68	2.43	64	6.82	73
5	Doc Oberlander D. Oberlander	7.67	23	3	1	2	.333	3	5.26	3	0	0	25.2	27	15	33	2	18	1	0		123	5	8.06	6.31	1.28	0.70	18.7	14.6	1.75	.316	11.57	172	4.03	137	9.47	-3.1
6	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	7.53	1,746	232	90	59	.604	232	2.50	4	2	0	1449.1	1,109	403	440	129	325	24	0	13	5,691	28	10.84	2.02	5.37	0.80	30.7	5.7	0.99	.283	2.73	64	2.62	64	6.89	235.8
7	Juan Pena J. Pena	7.5	15	2	2	0	1.000	2	0.69	0	0	0	13.0	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	49	0	10.38	2.08	5.00	0.00	30.6	6.1	0.92	.290	0.69	14	1.51	32	6.23	4.7
8	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	7.3	3,408	467	215	112	.657	458	3.16	12	5	0	2881.0	2,349	1,012	1,085	337	756	112	2	20	11,640	78	10.65	2.36	4.51	1.05	29.3	6.5	1.08	.286	3.39	76	3.18	77	7.34	307.8
9	Spencer Strider S. Strider	7.29	532	73	32	15	.681	60	3.54	0	0	0	360.2	268	142	151	37	121	16	3	2	1,471	13	13.28	3.02	4.40	0.92	36.2	8.2	1.08	.302	3.77	83	2.70	65	6.69	57.5
10	Logan Henderson L. Henderson	7.25	29	4	3	0	1.000	4	1.71	0	0	0	21.0	14	4	4	3	6	0	0	0	81	0	12.43	2.57	4.83	1.29	35.8	7.4	0.95	.256	1.71	42	3.01	75	6.00	2.3
11	Mark Prior M. Prior	7.14	757	106	42	29	.592	106	3.51	5	1	0	657.0	582	256	277	77	223	31	0	10	2,771	21	10.37	3.05	3.39	1.05	27.3	8.0	1.23	.300	3.79	81	3.40	78	7.97	70.6
12	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	7.12	2,007	282	110	88	.556	282	3.58	2	1	0	1706.0	1,394	678	712	217	544	77	0	8	7,009	79	10.59	2.87	3.69	1.14	28.6	7.8	1.14	.283	3.76	85	3.53	84	7.35	125.8
13	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	7.1	2,251	317	153	80	.657	317	3.18	8	5	0	1954.0	1,627	690	740	217	500	61	0	8	7,861	58	10.37	2.30	4.50	1.00	28.6	6.4	1.09	.292	3.41	79	3.16	77	7.49	213.5
14	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	7.08	5,714	807	324	292	.526	773	3.19	222	61	3	5386.0	3,923	1,911	2,178	321	2,795	158	13	78	22,575	277	9.55	4.67	2.04	0.54	25.3	12.4	1.25	.265	3.64	90	2.96	83	6.56	370.2
15	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	7.04	958	136	62	32	.660	134	3.22	5	2	0	843.0	752	302	323	94	188	18	1	1	3,415	34	10.23	2.01	5.10	1.00	28.1	5.5	1.12	.305	3.45	76	3.08	73	8.03	108
16	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	7.03	267	38	15	9	.625	38	1.89	1	0	0	229.0	154	48	53	15	54	8	0	0	879	3	10.49	2.12	4.94	0.59	30.4	6.1	0.91	.260	2.08	45	2.45	61	6.05	40.1
17	Chris Saenz C. Saenz	7	7	1	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	0	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	24	0	10.50	4.50	2.33	0.00	29.2	12.5	0.83	.154	0.00	0	2.71	61	3.00	1.1
18	Charlie Guth C. Guth	7	7	1	1	0	1.000	1	5.00	1	0	0	9.0	12	5	8	0	1		0		42	4	7.00	1.00	7.00	0.00	16.7	2.4	1.44		8.00	204	1.31	54	12.00	1.2
19	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	6.99	608	87	38	19	.667	87	3.02	1	1	0	482.2	350	162	170	53	173	24	0	2	1,956	43	11.34	3.23	3.51	0.99	31.1	8.8	1.08	.270	3.17	71	3.30	77	6.53	50.2
20	Stephen Strasburg S. Strasburg	6.98	1,723	247	113	62	.646	247	3.24	2	2	0	1470.0	1,217	530	582	149	394	53	0	20	5,962	44	10.55	2.41	4.37	0.91	28.9	6.6	1.10	.293	3.56	80	3.01	75	7.45	165.9
21	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	6.82	2,988	438	214	94	.695	435	2.51	25	15	0	2770.1	2,117	772	847	229	688	44	1	28	10,931	104	9.71	2.24	4.34	0.74	27.3	6.3	1.01	.270	2.75	64	2.83	70	6.88	368.1
22	Charlie Geggus C. Geggus	6.78	156	23	10	9	.526	21	2.54	19	0	0	177.1	143	50	100	2	38		2		733	23	7.92	1.93	4.11	0.10	21.3	5.2	1.02		5.08	85	2.30	89	7.26	4.8
23	Hunter Greene H. Greene	6.72	558	83	22	28	.440	83	3.74	1	1	0	447.2	355	186	194	64	167	39	0	0	1,877	18	11.22	3.36	3.34	1.29	29.7	8.9	1.17	.277	3.90	85	3.90	90	7.14	21.7
24	Robbie Ray R. Ray	6.63	1,645	248	85	75	.531	244	3.90	1	1	0	1346.0	1,165	583	621	201	570	47	1	19	5,695	57	11.00	3.81	2.89	1.34	28.9	10.0	1.29	.298	4.15	93	4.02	98	7.79	11.8
25	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	6.63	3,154	476	219	100	.687	409	2.93	46	17	3	2827.1	2,221	919	1,006	239	760	141	23	30	11,394	62	10.04	2.42	4.15	0.76	27.7	6.7	1.05	.279	3.20	66	2.91	68	7.07	454.6