mlb pitcher with most strikeouts in first 9 games

Kerry Wood fanned the most hitters in his first 9 games, with 85 strikeouts.

	NAME	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	H/9
1	Kerry Wood K. Wood	85	9	5	2	.714	9	3.04	1	1	0	53.1	34	18	18	4	27	4	0	1	221	1	14.34	4.56	3.15	0.68	38.5	12.2	1.14	.297	3.04	5.74
2	Herb Score H. Score	82	9	5	3	.625	9	2.88	4	1	0	72.0	48	23	24	6	45	0	0	1	299	2	10.25	5.63	1.82	0.75	27.4	15.1	1.29	.253	3.00	6.00
3	Jose DeLeon J. DeLeon	80	9	6	2	.750	9	2.03	2	1	0	71.0	38	16	17	3	27	1	0	0	271	4	10.14	3.42	2.96	0.38	29.5	10.0	0.92	.219	2.15	4.82
4	Stephen Strasburg S. Strasburg	75	9	5	2	.714	9	2.32	0	0	0	54.1	43	14	15	3	15	0	0	0	217	2	12.42	2.48	5.00	0.50	34.6	6.9	1.07	.323	2.48	7.12
5	Hideo Nomo H. Nomo	75	9	3	1	.750	9	2.84	0	0	0	57.0	38	18	22	6	34	3	0	1	246	6	11.84	5.37	2.21	0.95	30.5	13.8	1.26	.250	3.47	6.00
6	Masahiro Tanaka M. Tanaka	73	9	6	1	.857	9	2.39	1	1	0	64.0	54	17	19	7	8	1	0	0	251	1	10.27	1.13	9.13	0.98	29.1	3.2	0.97	.290	2.67	7.59
7	Dwight Gooden D. Gooden	73	9	4	3	.571	9	3.68	1	1	0	51.1	39	21	26	1	25	1	0	0	219	1	12.80	4.38	2.92	0.18	33.3	11.4	1.25	.319	4.56	6.84
8	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	71	9	4	4	.500	8	2.30	2	0	0	54.2	34	14	18	5	32	0	0	2	226	4	11.69	5.27	2.22	0.82	31.4	14.2	1.21	.246	2.96	5.60
9	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	70	9	4	0	1.000	9	2.06	0	0	0	52.1	44	12	12	6	10	1	0	0	205	1	12.04	1.72	7.00	1.03	34.1	4.9	1.03	.322	2.06	7.57
10	Noodles Hahn N. Hahn	67	9	7	2	.778	9	2.20	9	0	0	82.0	79	20	26	1	18	2	0		346	0	7.35	1.98	3.72	0.11	19.4	5.2	1.18	.302	2.85	8.67
11	Nolan McLean N. McLean	65	9	5	1	.833	9	2.21	0	0	0	53.0	38	13	15	5	18	3	0	0	210	2	11.04	3.06	3.61	0.85	31.0	8.6	1.06	.277	2.55	6.45
12	Mark Prior M. Prior	65	9	2	2	.500	9	3.98	0	0	0	52.0	42	23	23	7	22	3	0	0	219	0	11.25	3.81	2.95	1.21	29.7	10.0	1.23	.287	3.98	7.27
13	Al Leiter A. Leiter	65	9	5	3	.625	9	4.86	0	0	0	53.2	48	29	30	6	26	3	0	0	232	4	10.90	4.36	2.50	1.01	28.0	11.2	1.38	.318	5.03	8.05
14	Jared Jones J. Jones	63	9	3	4	.429	9	2.89	0	0	0	53.0	41	17	18	9	7	1	0	0	206	1	10.70	1.19	9.00	1.53	30.6	3.4	0.91	.254	3.06	6.96
15	Taj Bradley T. Bradley	63	9	4	3	.571	9	4.19	0	0	0	43.0	41	20	23	4	15	1	0	0	185	1	13.19	3.14	4.20	0.84	34.1	8.1	1.30	.363	4.81	8.58
16	Ian Anderson I. Anderson	63	9	5	2	.714	9	1.31	0	0	0	48.0	27	7	11	1	22	2	0	0	199	5	11.81	4.13	2.86	0.19	31.7	11.1	1.02	.234	2.06	5.06
17	Freddy Peralta F. Peralta	63	9	4	2	.667	9	3.61	0	0	0	47.1	25	19	19	4	26	3	0	0	192	3	11.98	4.94	2.42	0.76	32.8	13.5	1.08	.219	3.61	4.75
18	Matt Harvey M. Harvey	63	9	3	5	.375	9	2.92	0	0	0	52.1	41	17	18	4	23	3	0	0	222	3	10.83	3.96	2.74	0.69	28.4	10.4	1.22	.287	3.10	7.05
19	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	63	9	6	2	.750	9	3.05	0	0	0	56.0	47	19	22	4	32	4	0	0	247	3	10.13	5.14	1.97	0.64	25.5	13.0	1.41	.299	3.54	7.55
20	Andy Benes A. Benes	63	9	6	2	.750	9	3.25	0	0	0	61.0	40	22	23	7	29	1	0	0	251	0	9.30	4.28	2.17	1.03	25.1	11.6	1.13	.219	3.39	5.90
21	Dinelson Lamet D. Lamet	62	9	3	4	.429	9	6.40	0	0	0	45.0	40	32	37	11	19	2	0	1	199	3	12.40	3.80	3.26	2.20	31.2	9.5	1.31	.276	7.40	8.00
22	Kodai Senga K. Senga	61	9	4	3	.571	9	3.94	0	0	0	48.0	42	21	21	6	31	0	0	0	213	5	11.44	5.81	1.97	1.13	28.6	14.6	1.52	.313	3.94	7.88
23	Michael Pineda M. Pineda	61	9	6	2	.750	9	2.16	0	0	0	58.1	41	14	15	3	14	1	0	1	229	3	9.41	2.16	4.36	0.46	26.6	6.1	0.94	.253	2.31	6.33
24	Orlando Hernandez O. Hernandez	61	9	5	2	.714	9	2.43	1	0	0	63.0	52	17	21	4	24	4	0	1	256	2	8.71	3.43	2.54	0.57	23.8	9.4	1.21	.294	3.00	7.43
25	Gary Nolan G. Nolan	61	9	4	1	.800	8	2.33	2	1	0	58.0	47	15	19	4	15	1	1	1	237	1	9.47	2.33	4.07	0.62	25.7	6.3	1.07	.276	2.95	7.29

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