most career strikeouts by a pitcher on july 4th

Lefty Grove has struck out the most career batters on July 4, with 60 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	Lefty Grove L. Grove	60	9	5	1	.833	7	2.47	5	1	1	73.0	63	20	21	4	18	0	2		292	1	7.40	2.22	3.33	0.49	20.5	6.2	1.11	.281	2.59	7.77
2	Tom Seaver T. Seaver	50	7	4	2	.667	7	2.78	3	1	0	55.0	44	17	21	3	18	0	0	1	223	2	8.18	2.95	2.78	0.49	22.4	8.1	1.13	.270	3.44	7.20
3	Rube Waddell R. Waddell	50	10	4	5	.444	8	2.28	5	0	0	75.0	82		43	2	24	2	1			4	6.00	2.88	2.08	0.24		8.8	1.41	.410	5.16	9.84
4	Early Wynn E. Wynn	47	11	5	3	.625	10	2.43	7	1	1	85.1	67	23	28	2	31	2	1		354	1	4.96	3.27	1.52	0.21	13.3	8.8	1.15	.239	2.95	7.07
5	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	46	5	3	1	.750	5	2.48	3	1	0	36.1	21	10	10	3	17	2	0	0	146	2	11.39	4.21	2.71	0.74	31.5	11.6	1.05	.231	2.48	5.20
6	Don Sutton D. Sutton	42	9	6	2	.750	8	1.91	4	2	0	61.1	44	13	13	6	18	2	1	1	244	1	6.16	2.64	2.33	0.88	17.2	7.4	1.01	.216	1.91	6.46
7	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	39	5	5	0	1.000	5	2.91	1	0	0	34.0	26	11	12	6	12	2	0	0	139	1	10.32	3.18	3.25	1.59	28.1	8.6	1.12	.250	3.18	6.88
8	Steve Carlton S. Carlton	38	6	4	1	.800	6	3.55	3	2	0	45.2	35	18	23	7	8	0	0	0	181	0	7.49	1.58	4.75	1.38	21.0	4.4	0.94	.219	4.53	6.90
9	Bob Friend B. Friend	37	10	5	2	.714	9	2.26	5	0	0	75.2	69	19	21	6	22	0	0	2	316	2	4.40	2.62	1.68	0.71	11.7	7.0	1.20	.251	2.50	8.21
10	David Price D. Price	36	6	3	2	.600	5	3.68	0	0	0	29.1	28	12	12	4	12	0	0	0	125	0	11.05	3.68	3.00	1.23	28.8	9.6	1.36	.329	3.68	8.59
11	Bob Turley B. Turley	36	6	2	2	.500	6	2.97	2	1	0	36.1	26	12	13	2	19	2	0	0	153	2	8.92	4.71	1.89	0.50	23.5	12.4	1.24	.255	3.22	6.44
12	Dazzy Vance D. Vance	33	7	4	1	.800	5	2.42	4	1	0	48.1	51	13	13	1	15	0	0		201	0	6.14	2.79	2.20	0.19	16.4	7.5	1.37	.329	2.42	9.50
13	Bill Donovan B. Donovan	33	8	4	2	.667	7	1.26	5	1	0	57.0	45		23	0	16	2	1			1	5.21	2.53	2.06	0.00		7.7	1.07	.285	3.63	7.11
14	Lefty Gomez L. Gomez	32	6	4	2	.667	6	1.87	4	1	0	53.0	39	11	16	2	15	0	0		213	3	5.43	2.55	2.13	0.34	15.0	7.0	1.02	.226	2.72	6.62
15	Sad Sam Jones S. Sam Jones	32	10	7	2	.778	9	1.65	7	2	0	76.1	69		22	3	25	2	1			0	3.77	2.95	1.28	0.35		7.8	1.23	.257	2.59	8.14
16	Don Robinson D. Robinson	30	7	2	2	.500	5	4.46	0	0	1	38.1	36	19	19	4	11	0	2	1	162	1	7.04	2.58	2.73	0.94	18.5	6.8	1.23	.274	4.46	8.45
17	Jim Bunning J. Bunning	30	4	2	1	.667	4	1.41	1	1	0	32.0	18	5	8	4	6	2	0	0	123	0	8.44	1.69	5.00	1.13	24.4	4.9	0.75	.173	2.25	5.06
18	Hal Newhouser H. Newhouser	30	6	3	0	1.000	6	3.94	2	0	0	45.2	48	20	23	0	20	1	0		195	0	5.91	3.94	1.50	0.00	15.4	10.3	1.49	.333	4.53	9.46
19	Bob Feller B. Feller	30	6	2	2	.500	5	3.63	2	0	0	34.2	29	14	19	1	23	0	0	0	159	0	7.79	5.97	1.30	0.26	18.9	14.5	1.50	.267	4.93	7.53
20	Bob Groom B. Groom	29	7	3	0	1.000	5	1.52	3	2	0	41.1	26		11	1	6	2	0		153	1	6.31	1.31	4.83	0.22	19.0	3.9	0.77	.217	2.40	5.66
21	Eddie Plank E. Plank	29	9	4	4	.500	6	2.78	5	0	0	58.1	68		27	1	16	0	2			2	4.47	2.47	1.81	0.15		6.9	1.44	.360	4.17	10.49
22	Terry Mulholland T. Mulholland	28	7	3	2	.600	5	3.49	3	0	0	38.2	37	15	18	4	13	1	0	1	162	0	6.52	3.03	2.15	0.93	17.3	8.0	1.29	.284	4.19	8.61
23	Roger Clemens R. Clemens	28	4	3	0	1.000	4	2.25	0	0	0	28.0	22	7	7	1	4	1	0	0	111	0	9.00	1.29	7.00	0.32	25.2	3.6	0.93	.273	2.25	7.07
24	Wilbur Cooper W. Cooper	28	9	3	4	.429	5	4.93	2	0	0	45.2	54	25	30	2	16	3	3		206	0	5.52	3.15	1.75	0.39	13.6	7.8	1.53	.331	5.91	10.64
25	Christy Mathewson C. Mathewson	28	7	4	3	.571	5	1.24	3	1	0	50.2	46		16	0	13	0	1		205	2	4.97	2.31	2.15	0.00	13.7	6.3	1.16	.280	2.84	8.17

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Astros	72	69	.511
Rangers	69	71	.493	2.5
Mariners	66	74	.471	5.5
Athletics	54	86	.386	17.5
Angels	53	87	.379	18.5

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Fri 9/4	ATH	@	SEA	10:10 PM
Sat 9/5	ATH	@	SEA	9:40 PM
Sun 9/6	ATH	@	SEA	4:10 PM
Mon 9/7	TOR	@	ATH	10:05 PM
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Brewers	87	54	.617
Cubs	79	62	.560	8.0
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