most playoff strikeouts in a career for a pitcher

Justin Verlander has fanned the most career hitters in the postseason, with 244 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	Justin Verlander J. Verlander	244	38	17	12	.586	37	3.58	2	1	0	226.0	179	90	93	32	74	5	0	0	920	8	9.72	2.95	3.30	1.27	26.5	8.0	1.12	.260	3.70	7.13
2	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	213	39	13	13	.500	32	4.49	0	0	1	194.1	165	97	102	30	51	4	2	5	788	11	9.86	2.36	4.18	1.39	27.0	6.5	1.11	.276	4.72	7.64
3	John Smoltz J. Smoltz	199	41	15	4	.789	27	2.67	2	1	4	209.0	172	62	67	17	67	3	11	6	856	6	8.57	2.89	2.97	0.73	23.2	7.8	1.14	.272	2.89	7.41
4	Andy Pettitte A. Pettitte	183	44	19	11	.633	44	3.81	0	0	0	276.2	285	117	121	31	76	3	0	4	1,157	4	5.95	2.47	2.41	1.01	15.8	6.6	1.30	.294	3.94	9.27
5	Roger Clemens R. Clemens	173	35	12	8	.600	34	3.75	1	1	0	199.0	173	83	87	17	70	6	1	1	837	10	7.82	3.17	2.47	0.77	20.7	8.4	1.22	.273	3.93	7.82
6	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	171	30	7	8	.467	25	3.78	0	0	1	143.0	109	60	63	20	56	9	1	4	594	8	10.76	3.52	3.05	1.26	28.8	9.4	1.15	.263	3.97	6.86
7	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	156	22	11	6	.647	22	2.77	0	0	0	133.1	100	41	50	19	36	3	0	1	537	1	10.53	2.43	4.33	1.28	29.1	6.7	1.02	.251	3.38	6.75
8	Mike Mussina M. Mussina	145	23	7	8	.467	21	3.42	0	0	0	139.2	121	53	56	19	33	3	0	7	571	2	9.34	2.13	4.39	1.22	25.4	5.8	1.10	.275	3.61	7.80
9	Tom Glavine T. Glavine	143	35	14	16	.467	35	3.30	3	0	0	218.1	191	80	91	21	87	7	0	11	912	3	5.89	3.59	1.64	0.87	15.7	9.5	1.27	.260	3.75	7.87
10	Jon Lester J. Lester	133	26	9	7	.563	22	2.51	0	0	0	154.0	117	43	46	15	40	3	2	0	610	4	7.77	2.34	3.33	0.88	21.8	6.6	1.02	.243	2.69	6.84
11	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	132	19	7	9	.438	16	3.50	3	2	0	121.0	106	47	51	15	32	0	2	2	493	0	9.82	2.38	4.13	1.12	26.8	6.5	1.14	.290	3.79	7.88
12	Greg Maddux G. Maddux	125	35	11	14	.440	30	3.27	2	0	1	198.0	195	72	97	14	51	9	2	16	836	4	5.68	2.32	2.45	0.64	15.0	6.1	1.24	.284	4.41	8.86
13	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	123	29	4	5	.444	16	2.83	1	0	4	114.1	105	36	39	11	22	2	9	1	464	4	9.68	1.73	5.59	0.87	26.5	4.7	1.11	.307	3.07	8.27
14	CC Sabathia	121	26	10	7	.588	23	4.28	1	0	0	130.1	137	62	67	15	63	8	0	9	586	5	8.36	4.35	1.92	1.04	20.6	10.8	1.53	.322	4.63	9.46
15	Curt Schilling C. Schilling	120	19	11	2	.846	19	2.23	4	2	0	133.1	104	33	37	12	25	3	0	0	525	1	8.10	1.69	4.80	0.81	22.9	4.8	0.97	.252	2.50	7.02
16	Walker Buehler W. Buehler	114	19	4	4	.500	18	3.04	0	0	1	94.2	73	32	34	9	36	2	1	2	388	3	10.84	3.42	3.17	0.86	29.4	9.3	1.15	.282	3.23	6.94
17	John Lackey J. Lackey	114	29	8	6	.571	23	3.44	0	0	0	144.0	135	55	58	7	47	4	2	6	601	10	7.13	2.94	2.43	0.44	19.0	7.8	1.26	.298	3.63	8.44
18	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	110	96	8	1	.889	0	0.70	0	0	42	141.0	86	11	13	2	21	3	78	4	527	3	7.02	1.34	5.24	0.13	20.9	4.0	0.76	.215	0.83	5.49
19	Orlando Hernandez O. Hernandez	107	19	9	3	.750	14	2.55	0	0	0	106.0	77	30	32	10	55	4	0	3	443	1	9.08	4.67	1.95	0.85	24.2	12.4	1.25	.251	2.72	6.54
20	Zack Greinke Z. Greinke	100	22	4	6	.400	21	4.14	0	0	0	113.0	103	52	55	19	33	3	0	0	469	2	7.96	2.63	3.03	1.51	21.3	7.0	1.20	.268	4.38	8.20
21	Josh Beckett J. Beckett	99	14	7	3	.700	13	3.07	3	3	0	93.2	67	32	32	11	21	4	0	1	366	3	9.51	2.02	4.71	1.06	27.0	5.7	0.94	.242	3.07	6.44
22	Orel Hershiser O. Hershiser	97	22	8	3	.727	18	2.59	4	2	1	132.0	103	38	43	8	43	6	2	5	533	6	6.61	2.93	2.26	0.55	18.2	8.1	1.11	.251	2.93	7.02
23	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	96	16	6	4	.600	14	3.46	0	0	0	96.1	74	37	37	10	30	8	1	0	391	1	8.97	2.80	3.20	0.93	24.6	7.7	1.08	.259	3.46	6.91
24	Framber Valdez F. Valdez	95	17	7	6	.538	16	4.34	0	0	0	85.0	82	41	45	14	34	4	1	0	360	0	10.06	3.60	2.79	1.48	26.4	9.4	1.36	.319	4.76	8.68
25	Kenley Jansen K. Jansen	94	59	3	2	.600	0	2.20	0	0	20	65.1	34	16	18	7	18	3	47	3	250	0	12.95	2.48	5.22	0.96	37.6	7.2	0.80	.211	2.48	4.68