most strikeouts as a rangers reliever in 1979

Jim Kern fanned the most batters by a Rangers relief pitcher in 1979, with 136 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	G	W	L	W%	ERA	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	Jim Kern J. Kern	136	1979	TEX	71	13	5	.722	1.57	29	143.0	99	25	35	5	62	2	57	6	578	5	8.56	3.90	2.19	0.31	23.5	10.7	1.13	.252	2.20	6.23
2	Sparky Lyle S. Lyle	48	1979	TEX	67	5	8	.385	3.13	13	95.0	78	33	37	9	28	0	53	6	384	3	4.55	2.65	1.71	0.85	12.5	7.3	1.12	.231	3.51	7.39
3	Danny Darwin D. Darwin	34	1979	TEX	14	1	3	.250	3.26	0	38.2	20	14	14	1	14	3	4	2	149	0	7.91	3.26	2.43	0.23	22.8	9.4	0.88	.196	3.26	4.66
4	Dave Rajsich D. Rajsich	27	1979	TEX	24	1	1	.500	2.45	0	40.1	39	11	14	3	16	0	8	0	170	0	6.02	3.57	1.69	0.67	15.9	9.4	1.36	.290	3.12	8.70
5	Ed Farmer E. Farmer	18	1979	TEX	9	1	0	1.000	3.38	0	21.1	18	8	10	1	9	0	5	2	90	1	7.59	3.80	2.00	0.42	20.0	10.0	1.27	.274	4.22	7.59
6	Doc Medich D. Medich	17	1979	TEX	10	0	3	.000	7.14	0	29.0	37	23	24	4	16	1	1	2	140	1	5.28	4.97	1.06	1.24	12.1	11.4	1.83	.324	7.45	11.48
7	Doyle Alexander D. Alexander	13	1979	TEX	5	0	0		5.79	0	14.0	13	9	9	2	6	0	3	0	59	1	8.36	3.86	2.17	1.29	22.0	10.2	1.36	.289	5.79	8.36
8	Bob Babcock B. Babcock	6	1979	TEX	4	0	0		10.13	0	5.1	7	6	7	1	7	0	1	0	31	1	10.13	11.81	0.86	1.69	19.4	22.6	2.63	.353	11.81	11.81
9	Brian Allard B. Allard	5	1979	TEX	3	0	0		4.50	0	8.0	9	4	4	0	7	0	1	1	37	0	5.63	7.88	0.71	0.00	13.5	18.9	2.00	.360	4.50	10.13
10	John Henry Johnson J. Henry Johnson	4	1979	TEX	5	0	0		2.81	0	16.0	13	5	7	1	7	0	1	0	68	0	2.25	3.94	0.57	0.56	5.9	10.3	1.25	.214	3.94	7.31
11	Larry McCall L. McCall	1	1979	TEX	1	0	0		9.00	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	6	0	9.00	9.00	1.00	0.00	16.7	16.7	2.00	.250	9.00	9.00
12	Jerry Don Gleaton J. Don Gleaton	1	1979	TEX	3	0	0		0.00	0	2.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	0	3.38	0.00		0.00	11.1	0.0	0.38	.125	0.00	3.38

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