most strike outs as a cardinals pitcher in 1978

Pete Vuckovich fanned the most batters for the Cardinals in a season in 1978, with 149 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	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	ERA-	FIP	FIP-	H/9	PRAA
1	Pete Vuckovich P. Vuckovich	149	1978	STL	45	12	12	.500	23	2.54	6	2	1	198.1	187	56	65	9	59	2	15	5	819	7	6.76	2.68	2.53	0.41	18.2	7.2	1.24	.297	2.95	70	2.58	75	8.49	18.8
2	Mark Littell M. Littell	130	1978	STL	72	4	8	.333	2	2.79	0	0	11	106.1	80	33	38	8	59	4	51	16	447	9	11.00	4.99	2.20	0.68	29.1	13.2	1.31	.293	3.22	77	2.88	84	6.77	6.4
3	Bob Forsch B. Forsch	114	1978	STL	34	11	17	.393	34	3.70	7	3	0	233.2	205	96	110	15	97	5	0	9	981	8	4.39	3.74	1.18	0.58	11.6	9.9	1.29	.253	4.24	102	3.74	109	7.90	-8.8
4	John Denny J. Denny	103	1978	STL	33	14	11	.560	33	2.96	11	2	0	234.0	200	77	81	13	74	6	0	4	936	8	3.96	2.85	1.39	0.50	11.0	7.9	1.17	.253	3.12	82	3.44	100	7.69	-0.8
5	Buddy Schultz B. Schultz	70	1978	STL	62	2	4	.333	0	3.80	0	0	6	83.0	68	35	36	6	36	0	32	6	343	2	7.59	3.90	1.94	0.65	20.4	10.5	1.25	.268	3.90	105	3.13	91	7.37	2.7
6	John Urrea J. Urrea	61	1978	STL	27	4	9	.308	12	5.38	1	0	0	98.2	108	59	75	4	47	7	3	4	445	5	5.56	4.29	1.30	0.36	13.7	10.6	1.57	.319	6.84	149	3.51	102	9.85	-1.1
7	Aurelio Lopez A. Lopez	46	1978	STL	25	4	2	.667	4	4.29	0	0	0	65.0	52	31	35	4	32	1	4	2	279	5	6.37	4.43	1.44	0.55	16.5	11.5	1.29	.245	4.85	119	3.48	102	7.20	-0.5
8	Silvio Martinez S. Martinez	45	1978	STL	22	9	8	.529	22	3.64	5	2	0	138.1	114	56	65	11	71	2	0	7	586	3	2.93	4.62	0.63	0.72	7.7	12.1	1.34	.225	4.23	101	4.54	133	7.42	-17.9
9	Tom Bruno T. Bruno	33	1978	STL	18	4	3	.571	3	1.99	0	0	1	49.2	38	11	12	3	17	0	8	1	201	0	5.98	3.08	1.94	0.54	16.4	8.5	1.11	.236	2.17	55	3.06	89	6.89	2
10	Eric Rasmussen E. Rasmussen	32	1978	STL	10	2	5	.286	10	4.18	2	1	0	60.1	61	28	32	4	20	0	0	2	255	2	4.77	2.98	1.60	0.60	12.5	7.8	1.34	.286	4.77	116	3.37	98	9.10	0.3
11	Pete Falcone P. Falcone	28	1978	STL	19	2	7	.222	14	5.76	0	0	0	75.0	94	48	52	9	48	2	2	2	352	8	3.36	5.76	0.58	1.08	8.0	13.6	1.89	.321	6.24	160	5.39	157	11.28	-17
12	Roy Thomas R. Thomas	16	1978	STL	16	1	1	.500	1	3.81	0	0	3	28.1	21	12	14	0	16	0	7	3	120	3	5.08	5.08	1.00	0.00	13.3	13.3	1.31	.239	4.45	106	3.14	92	6.67	0.9
13	Dan O'Brien D. O'Brien	12	1978	STL	7	0	2	.000	2	4.50	0	0	0	18.0	22	9	12	1	8	2	1	2	86	0	6.00	4.00	1.50	0.50	14.0	9.3	1.67	.333	6.00	125	3.63	106	11.00	-0.4
14	George Frazier G. Frazier	8	1978	STL	14	0	3	.000	0	4.09	0	0	0	22.0	22	10	14	2	6	0	3	2	96	1	3.27	2.45	1.33	0.82	8.3	6.3	1.27	.250	5.73	113	3.85	112	9.00	-1.1
15	Dave Hamilton D. Hamilton	8	1978	STL	13	0	0		0	6.43	0	0	0	14.0	16	10	13	5	6	0	4	0	62	0	5.14	3.86	1.33	3.21	12.9	9.7	1.57	.256	8.36	178	7.36	215	10.29	-6.3
16	Rob Dressler R. Dressler	4	1978	STL	3	0	1	.000	2	2.08	0	0	0	13.0	12	3	3	0	4	0	0	1	49	0	2.77	2.77	1.00	0.00	8.2	8.2	1.23	.293	2.08	58	2.88	84	8.31	0.8

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