most strikeouts as a pitcher in august 2012

Clayton Kershaw and Edwin Jackson were tied for fanning the most batters in August 2012, with 49 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	MONTH	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	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	49	August 2012	6	4	2	.667	6	2.49	0	0	0	43.1	30	12	12	4	8	1	0	1	165	0	10.18	1.66	6.13	0.83	29.7	4.8	0.88	.252	2.49	6.23
2	Edwin Jackson E. Jackson	49	August 2012	6	2	3	.400	6	3.58	0	0	0	37.2	31	15	16	6	14	0	0	2	157	0	11.71	3.35	3.50	1.43	31.2	8.9	1.19	.284	3.82	7.41
3	Justin Verlander J. Verlander	46	August 2012	5	1	0	1.000	5	3.53	0	0	0	35.2	38	14	16	2	10	1	0	1	156	0	11.61	2.52	4.60	0.50	29.5	6.4	1.35	.371	4.04	9.59
4	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	44	August 2012	5	4	0	1.000	5	2.25	0	0	0	32.0	31	8	8	3	9	1	0	0	130	0	12.38	2.53	4.89	0.84	33.8	6.9	1.25	.384	2.25	8.72
5	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	44	August 2012	5	2	2	.500	5	5.29	0	0	0	32.1	30	19	19	2	18	1	0	1	144	1	12.25	5.01	2.44	0.56	30.6	12.5	1.48	.354	5.29	8.35
6	R.A. Dickey	43	August 2012	6	3	2	.600	6	2.00	2	1	0	45.0	32	10	11	5	11	2	0	0	172	2	8.60	2.20	3.91	1.00	25.0	6.4	0.96	.243	2.20	6.40
7	Jeff Samardzija J. Samardzija	42	August 2012	6	1	4	.200	6	3.52	0	0	0	38.1	35	15	17	7	7	1	0	0	153	3	9.86	1.64	6.00	1.64	27.5	4.6	1.10	.292	3.99	8.22
8	Chris Sale C. Sale	41	August 2012	5	3	2	.600	5	3.55	0	0	0	33.0	32	13	13	8	8	0	0	3	134	1	11.18	2.18	5.13	2.18	30.6	6.0	1.21	.312	3.55	8.73
9	Matt Moore M. Moore	40	August 2012	6	3	1	.750	6	2.19	0	0	0	37.0	32	9	9	2	12	1	0	0	151	2	9.73	2.92	3.33	0.49	26.5	7.9	1.19	.313	2.19	7.78
10	Yovani Gallardo Y. Gallardo	39	August 2012	5	5	0	1.000	5	2.02	0	0	0	35.2	26	8	8	4	12	0	0	0	141	0	9.84	3.03	3.25	1.01	27.7	8.5	1.07	.256	2.02	6.56
11	Gio Gonzalez G. Gonzalez	39	August 2012	6	4	2	.667	6	2.64	2	1	0	44.1	41	13	13	2	11	2	0	0	181	1	7.92	2.23	3.55	0.41	21.5	6.1	1.17	.307	2.64	8.32
12	Madison Bumgarner M. Bumgarner	38	August 2012	6	3	3	.500	6	2.97	1	0	0	39.1	30	13	14	4	9	1	0	0	154	0	8.69	2.06	4.22	0.92	24.7	5.8	0.99	.255	3.20	6.86
13	Johnny Cueto J. Cueto	38	August 2012	6	4	1	.800	6	2.76	0	0	0	42.1	29	13	13	4	7	2	0	0	162	1	8.08	1.49	5.43	0.85	23.5	4.3	0.85	.225	2.76	6.17
14	Cliff Lee C. Lee	37	August 2012	5	1	1	.500	5	3.47	0	0	0	36.1	39	14	16	7	1	0	0	0	146	1	9.17	0.25	37.00	1.73	25.3	0.7	1.10	.317	3.96	9.66
15	Ubaldo Jimenez U. Jimenez	37	August 2012	6	1	4	.200	6	7.67	0	0	0	31.2	45	27	27	5	12	2	0	0	151	4	10.52	3.41	3.08	1.42	24.5	7.9	1.80	.421	7.67	12.79
16	Adam Wainwright A. Wainwright	36	August 2012	6	5	1	.833	6	2.75	2	1	0	39.1	35	12	12	1	8	1	0	0	157	1	8.24	1.83	4.50	0.23	22.9	5.1	1.09	.306	2.75	8.01
17	Ryan Dempster R. Dempster	36	August 2012	6	4	1	.800	6	4.58	0	0	0	37.1	38	19	23	6	13	0	0	0	159	2	8.68	3.13	2.77	1.45	22.6	8.2	1.37	.308	5.54	9.16
18	Carlos Villanueva C. Villanueva	36	August 2012	6	1	4	.200	6	3.41	0	0	0	37.0	32	14	14	5	7	0	0	0	145	0	8.76	1.70	5.14	1.22	24.8	4.8	1.05	.278	3.41	7.78
19	Kris Medlen K. Medlen	35	August 2012	5	4	0	1.000	5	0.50	1	1	0	35.2	27	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	131	1	8.83	1.01	8.75	0.00	26.7	3.1	0.87	.293	0.50	6.81
20	Mat Latos M. Latos	35	August 2012	6	2	1	.667	6	2.61	0	0	0	41.1	32	12	14	3	13	0	0	2	164	2	7.62	2.83	2.69	0.65	21.3	7.9	1.09	.257	3.05	6.97
21	Jon Lester J. Lester	35	August 2012	6	3	3	.500	6	3.59	1	0	0	42.2	36	17	17	2	13	0	0	0	172	2	7.38	2.74	2.69	0.42	20.3	7.6	1.15	.279	3.59	7.59
22	Mike Fiers M. Fiers	35	August 2012	6	4	2	.667	6	4.89	0	0	0	35.0	34	19	19	4	7	1	0	0	145	1	9.00	1.80	5.00	1.03	24.1	4.8	1.17	.306	4.89	8.74
23	A.J. Burnett	34	August 2012	5	2	2	.500	5	5.18	0	0	0	33.0	38	19	21	6	12	3	0	0	150	2	9.27	3.27	2.83	1.64	22.7	8.0	1.52	.337	5.73	10.36
24	Mark Rogers M. Rogers	34	August 2012	6	3	1	.750	6	4.05	0	0	0	33.1	30	15	15	4	13	0	0	0	140	1	9.18	3.51	2.62	1.08	24.3	9.3	1.29	.292	4.05	8.10
25	CC Sabathia	34	August 2012	4	3	1	.750	4	2.70	1	0	0	30.0	24	9	14	4	3	2	0	0	121	1	10.20	0.90	11.33	1.20	28.1	2.5	0.90	.256	4.20	7.20