mlb pitchers with most strikeouts in the month of may since 2019

Since 2019, Zack Wheeler has struck out the most hitters in the month of May, with 292 strikeouts.

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Data note: Strikeouts: player game data complete from 1901
Data note: Data: Retrosheet

	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	Zack Wheeler Z. Wheeler	292	39	20	6	.769	39	2.66	1	1	0	256.2	197	76	82	22	48	7	0	2	1,005	8	10.24	1.68	6.08	0.77	29.1	4.8	0.95	.275	2.88	6.91
2	Dylan Cease D. Cease	248	34	9	10	.474	34	3.96	0	0	0	191.0	157	84	87	25	66	8	0	1	787	6	11.69	3.11	3.76	1.18	31.5	8.4	1.17	.300	4.10	7.40
3	Kevin Gausman K. Gausman	239	38	19	7	.731	38	3.19	0	0	0	214.2	201	76	82	11	48	4	0	1	886	5	10.02	2.01	4.98	0.46	27.0	5.4	1.16	.325	3.44	8.43
4	Aaron Nola A. Nola	227	36	14	10	.583	36	4.16	1	1	0	210.0	196	97	101	32	57	8	0	1	873	2	9.73	2.44	3.98	1.37	26.0	6.5	1.20	.299	4.33	8.40
5	Sonny Gray S. Gray	225	36	17	3	.850	36	2.96	0	0	0	197.1	166	65	71	17	68	4	0	0	815	9	10.26	3.10	3.31	0.78	27.6	8.3	1.19	.297	3.24	7.57
6	Chris Sale C. Sale	223	25	14	4	.778	25	1.74	0	0	0	160.2	110	31	36	10	33	15	0	0	633	4	12.49	1.85	6.76	0.56	35.2	5.2	0.89	.284	2.02	6.16
7	Chris Bassitt C. Bassitt	207	37	16	8	.667	35	3.67	2	2	0	220.2	197	90	95	31	61	19	0	0	921	5	8.44	2.49	3.39	1.26	22.5	6.6	1.17	.275	3.87	8.03
8	Luis Castillo L. Castillo	205	37	10	16	.385	35	4.21	0	0	0	196.2	174	92	102	22	75	9	1	2	837	2	9.38	3.43	2.73	1.01	24.5	9.0	1.27	.289	4.67	7.96
9	Jack Flaherty J. Flaherty	204	32	10	15	.400	32	4.18	0	0	0	174.1	154	81	92	22	60	7	0	2	727	6	10.53	3.10	3.40	1.14	28.1	8.3	1.23	.304	4.75	7.95
10	Freddy Peralta F. Peralta	201	35	12	11	.522	31	3.96	1	0	0	177.1	164	78	90	23	70	7	0	1	767	10	10.20	3.55	2.87	1.17	26.2	9.1	1.32	.303	4.57	8.32
11	Corbin Burnes C. Burnes	198	36	8	11	.421	25	2.99	0	0	0	171.1	133	57	64	18	54	4	1	1	696	5	10.40	2.84	3.67	0.95	28.4	7.8	1.09	.273	3.36	6.99
12	Robbie Ray R. Ray	196	28	11	9	.550	28	3.98	0	0	0	158.1	142	70	81	25	58	3	0	0	666	9	11.14	3.30	3.38	1.42	29.4	8.7	1.26	.305	4.60	8.07
13	Charlie Morton C. Morton	196	34	11	8	.579	30	3.97	0	0	0	170.0	161	75	86	20	62	14	1	1	727	0	10.38	3.28	3.16	1.06	27.0	8.5	1.31	.324	4.55	8.52
14	Pablo López P. López	189	32	9	9	.500	32	3.90	0	0	0	182.1	166	79	81	29	48	9	0	1	756	6	9.33	2.37	3.94	1.43	25.0	6.3	1.17	.285	4.00	8.19
15	Lucas Giolito L. Giolito	188	31	18	6	.750	31	3.36	2	1	0	179.1	149	67	69	25	70	3	0	0	733	9	9.43	3.51	2.69	1.25	25.6	9.5	1.22	.277	3.46	7.48
16	Mitch Keller M. Keller	183	34	15	13	.536	32	4.10	2	1	0	191.0	180	87	93	16	51	13	0	0	800	5	8.62	2.40	3.59	0.75	22.9	6.4	1.21	.305	4.38	8.48
17	Merrill Kelly M. Kelly	181	34	13	12	.520	34	4.11	1	0	0	199.1	191	91	96	23	58	2	0	4	831	3	8.17	2.62	3.12	1.04	21.8	7.0	1.25	.296	4.33	8.62
18	José Berríos J. Berríos	179	34	12	7	.632	34	4.10	0	0	0	204.1	208	93	98	31	52	12	0	1	856	3	7.88	2.29	3.44	1.37	20.9	6.1	1.27	.304	4.32	9.16
19	Patrick Corbin P. Corbin	177	42	14	15	.483	42	4.29	2	1	0	243.1	252	116	123	33	75	5	0	3	1,034	7	6.55	2.77	2.36	1.22	17.1	7.3	1.34	.294	4.55	9.32
20	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	174	23	9	3	.750	23	3.33	0	0	0	140.2	121	52	54	21	32	1	0	0	567	4	11.13	2.05	5.44	1.34	30.7	5.6	1.09	.295	3.45	7.74
21	Tarik Skubal T. Skubal	172	21	9	4	.692	21	2.30	1	1	0	129.1	91	33	33	12	22	3	0	0	493	2	11.97	1.53	7.82	0.84	34.9	4.5	0.87	.278	2.30	6.33
22	Max Fried M. Fried	172	31	14	9	.609	31	3.22	1	0	0	184.2	157	66	69	16	54	4	0	2	743	8	8.38	2.63	3.19	0.78	23.1	7.3	1.14	.284	3.36	7.65
23	Framber Valdez F. Valdez	171	35	13	10	.565	28	3.42	3	1	0	192.1	160	73	77	19	56	8	2	0	782	8	8.00	2.62	3.05	0.89	21.9	7.2	1.12	.267	3.60	7.49
24	Yusei Kikuchi Y. Kikuchi	169	33	9	9	.500	33	3.56	0	0	0	182.0	170	72	79	28	64	5	0	3	769	4	8.36	3.16	2.64	1.38	22.0	8.3	1.29	.282	3.91	8.41
25	Sandy Alcantara S. Alcantara	166	32	6	15	.286	32	4.70	2	1	0	193.1	175	101	109	22	71	16	0	2	814	5	7.73	3.31	2.34	1.02	20.4	8.7	1.27	.284	5.07	8.15

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Mets	74	88	.457	20.0
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