most games with 12 or more strikeouts by a pitcher since 2000

Since 2000, Chris Sale has the most games pitched when striking out 12+ batters, with 41 games.

Interpreted as:

most regular-season games with 12 or more strikeouts by a pitcher since 2000

	NAME	G	SO	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	Chris Sale C. Sale	41	528	24	5	.828	41	1.23	4	1	0	307.1	161	42	46	20	47	9	0	0	1,133	5	15.46	1.38	11.23	0.59	46.6	4.1	0.68	.267	1.35	4.71
2	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	39	537	23	5	.821	38	1.81	9	5	0	298.1	193	60	71	19	67	11	1	2	1,149	7	16.20	2.02	8.01	0.57	46.7	5.8	0.87	.338	2.14	5.82
3	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	25	343	16	2	.889	25	1.24	3	2	0	189.1	100	26	28	14	33	4	0	1	701	1	16.30	1.57	10.39	0.67	48.9	4.7	0.70	.280	1.33	4.75
4	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	24	312	16	0	1.000	24	1.62	2	2	0	166.1	88	30	32	14	19	3	0	0	604	5	16.88	1.03	16.42	0.76	51.7	3.1	0.64	.289	1.73	4.76
5	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	23	299	20	1	.952	23	0.94	7	5	0	181.0	83	19	22	14	15	3	0	0	637	5	14.87	0.75	19.93	0.70	46.9	2.4	0.54	.225	1.09	4.13
6	Justin Verlander J. Verlander	22	281	15	2	.882	22	1.53	4	4	0	164.2	95	28	32	15	27	3	0	0	617	2	15.36	1.48	10.41	0.82	45.5	4.4	0.74	.275	1.75	5.19
7	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	20	261	9	2	.818	20	2.14	1	1	0	138.2	84	33	37	13	20	0	0	2	515	2	16.94	1.30	13.05	0.84	50.7	3.9	0.75	.321	2.40	5.45
8	Curt Schilling C. Schilling	18	233	14	2	.875	18	2.41	3	2	0	141.2	95	38	39	19	17	1	0	0	529	2	14.80	1.08	13.71	1.21	44.0	3.2	0.79	.293	2.48	6.04
9	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	18	236	15	2	.882	18	1.00	7	3	0	144.1	79	16	17	4	24	4	0	0	531	0	14.72	1.50	9.83	0.25	44.4	4.5	0.71	.285	1.06	4.93
10	Corey Kluber C. Kluber	16	211	9	1	.900	16	1.93	0	0	0	121.1	76	26	29	12	18	4	0	2	456	1	15.65	1.34	11.72	0.89	46.3	3.9	0.77	.303	2.15	5.64
11	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	16	206	9	3	.750	16	1.84	0	0	0	117.1	65	24	24	12	20	1	0	0	439	3	15.80	1.53	10.30	0.92	46.9	4.6	0.72	.265	1.84	4.99
12	Johan Santana J. Santana	15	195	9	3	.750	15	1.14	2	1	0	118.0	53	15	18	10	19	2	0	0	422	3	14.87	1.45	10.26	0.76	46.2	4.5	0.61	.219	1.37	4.04
13	Stephen Strasburg S. Strasburg	13	172	10	2	.833	13	1.35	0	0	0	93.1	41	14	16	7	13	2	0	0	335	1	16.59	1.25	13.23	0.68	51.3	3.9	0.58	.241	1.54	3.95
14	Tim Lincecum T. Lincecum	13	165	10	0	1.000	13	0.80	4	2	0	101.0	55	9	11	3	21	2	0	0	372	2	14.70	1.87	7.86	0.27	44.4	5.6	0.75	.287	0.98	4.90
15	Blake Snell B. Snell	12	151	7	1	.875	12	0.71	0	0	0	75.2	29	6	6	3	19	1	0	0	274	6	17.96	2.26	7.95	0.36	55.1	6.9	0.63	.260	0.71	3.45
16	David Price D. Price	12	149	8	2	.800	12	1.65	3	0	0	93.0	64	17	18	4	15	0	0	1	355	1	14.42	1.45	9.93	0.39	42.0	4.2	0.85	.321	1.74	6.19
17	Robbie Ray R. Ray	11	140	7	1	.875	11	1.73	0	0	0	73.0	42	14	14	8	18	1	0	1	281	2	17.26	2.22	7.78	0.99	49.8	6.4	0.82	.298	1.73	5.18
18	Trevor Bauer T. Bauer	11	137	5	1	.833	11	2.04	0	0	0	79.1	47	18	18	5	18	3	0	0	302	1	15.54	2.04	7.61	0.57	45.4	6.0	0.82	.302	2.04	5.33
19	Felix Hernandez F. Hernandez	11	138	7	1	.875	11	0.51	4	3	0	89.0	42	5	5	1	8	2	0	0	314	6	13.96	0.81	17.25	0.10	43.9	2.5	0.56	.248	0.51	4.25
20	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	10	133	8	1	.889	10	1.38	0	0	0	72.0	40	11	11	3	11	0	0	0	265	0	16.63	1.38	12.09	0.38	50.2	4.2	0.71	.314	1.38	5.00
21	Cliff Lee C. Lee	10	129	2	5	.286	10	1.88	3	1	0	81.1	60	17	19	8	5	1	0	0	307	1	14.27	0.55	25.80	0.89	42.0	1.6	0.80	.317	2.10	6.64
22	Cole Hamels C. Hamels	10	127	7	1	.875	10	1.80	2	1	0	75.0	44	15	15	8	14	3	0	0	281	0	15.24	1.68	9.07	0.96	45.2	5.0	0.77	.279	1.80	5.28
23	Javier Vazquez J. Vazquez	10	124	3	4	.429	10	2.86	0	0	0	72.1	40	23	25	9	7	0	0	0	265	5	15.43	0.87	17.71	1.12	46.8	2.6	0.65	.248	3.11	4.98
24	A.J. Burnett	10	127	5	2	.714	10	2.82	0	0	0	70.1	45	22	22	4	26	1	0	0	283	4	16.25	3.33	4.88	0.51	44.9	9.2	1.01	.328	2.82	5.76
25	Carlos Carrasco C. Carrasco	9	120	8	0	1.000	9	0.88	3	2	0	71.1	33	7	8	2	13	2	0	0	255	4	15.14	1.64	9.23	0.25	47.1	5.1	0.64	.263	1.01	4.16