most strikeouts by a pitcher in game 1 of alds

Justin Verlander has struck out the most career hitters in the ALDS, with 39 strikeouts.

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Data note: Strikeouts: player game data complete from 1903 · postseason
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	NAME	SO	SERIES	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	39	ALDS	7	5	0	1.000	7	2.97	0	0	0	36.1	26	12	12	2	17	1	0	0	146	1	9.66	4.21	2.29	0.50	26.7	11.6	1.18	.276	2.97	6.44
2	Bartolo Colon B. Colon	31	ALDS	4	1	2	.333	4	2.79	0	0	0	29.0	29	9	9	1	6	2	0	0	115	0	9.62	1.86	5.17	0.31	27.0	5.2	1.21	.373	2.79	9.00
3	CC Sabathia	29	ALDS	5	4	0	1.000	5	3.18	0	0	0	28.1	26	10	12	4	10	2	0	1	121	1	9.21	3.18	2.90	1.27	24.0	8.3	1.27	.289	3.81	8.26
4	Mike Mussina M. Mussina	26	ALDS	4	2	2	.500	4	2.36	0	0	0	26.2	24	7	7	3	4	0	0	1	105	0	8.78	1.35	6.50	1.01	24.8	3.8	1.05	.292	2.36	8.10
5	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	25	ALDS	4	2	1	.667	4	3.22	0	0	0	22.1	22	8	9	5	6	1	0	1	97	0	10.07	2.42	4.17	2.01	25.8	6.2	1.25	.283	3.63	8.87
6	Jon Lester J. Lester	19	ALDS	3	2	1	.667	3	2.18	0	0	0	20.2	13	5	6	3	8	0	0	0	86	0	8.27	3.48	2.38	1.31	22.1	9.3	1.02	.179	2.61	5.66
7	Johan Santana J. Santana	18	ALDS	4	1	1	.500	3	0.87	0	0	0	20.2	19	2	2	1	5	1	0	0	82	0	7.84	2.18	3.60	0.44	22.0	6.1	1.16	.316	0.87	8.27
8	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	17	ALDS	2	1	1	.500	2	4.40	0	0	0	14.1	10	7	7	3	3	1	0	0	55	1	10.67	1.88	5.67	1.88	30.9	5.5	0.91	.226	4.40	6.28
9	Roger Clemens R. Clemens	16	ALDS	4	0	2	.000	4	5.16	0	0	0	22.2	24	13	13	2	11	1	0	1	102	1	6.35	4.37	1.45	0.79	15.7	10.8	1.54	.306	5.16	9.53
10	Trevor Bauer T. Bauer	15	ALDS	3	1	0	1.000	2	2.19	0	0	0	12.1	10	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	46	1	10.95	0.73	15.00	1.46	32.6	2.2	0.89	.286	2.19	7.30
11	David Cone D. Cone	15	ALDS	3	1	1	.500	3	8.31	0	0	0	17.1	21	16	16	5	10	1	0	0	83	1	7.79	5.19	1.50	2.60	18.1	12.0	1.79	.308	8.31	10.90
12	Chris Sale C. Sale	14	ALDS	2	1	1	.500	2	7.84	0	0	0	10.1	14	9	9	3	3	0	0	0	46	0	12.19	2.61	4.67	2.61	30.4	6.5	1.65	.423	7.84	12.19
13	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	14	ALDS	3	1	0	1.000	3	3.00	0	0	0	18.0	15	6	6	2	5	0	0	0	73	1	7.00	2.50	2.80	1.00	19.2	6.8	1.11	.250	3.00	7.50
14	David Price D. Price	13	ALDS	2	0	2	.000	2	5.93	0	0	0	13.2	14	9	10	4	2	2	0	0	59	0	8.56	1.32	6.50	2.63	22.0	3.4	1.17	.263	6.59	9.22
15	John Lackey J. Lackey	13	ALDS	3	1	2	.333	3	2.70	0	0	0	20.0	17	6	6	3	6	1	0	0	81	2	5.85	2.70	2.17	1.35	16.0	7.4	1.15	.241	2.70	7.65
16	David Wells D. Wells	12	ALDS	2	2	0	1.000	2	2.45	0	0	0	14.2	13	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	59	0	7.36	1.23	6.00	0.61	20.3	3.4	1.02	.273	2.45	7.98
17	Drew Rasmussen D. Rasmussen	10	ALDS	1	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	0	0	8.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	26	0	11.25	2.25	5.00	0.00	38.5	7.7	0.38	.071	0.00	1.13
18	Andrew Miller A. Miller	10	ALDS	3	1	0	1.000	0	0.00	0	0	0	4.2	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	19	0	19.29	7.71	2.50	0.00	52.6	21.1	1.07	.200	0.00	1.93
19	Matt Moore M. Moore	10	ALDS	2	1	1	.500	2	5.56	0	0	0	11.1	10	7	8	0	4	2	0	1	51	2	7.94	3.18	2.50	0.00	19.6	7.8	1.24	.286	6.35	7.94
20	Cliff Lee C. Lee	10	ALDS	1	1	0	1.000	1	1.29	0	0	0	7.0	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	27	0	12.86	0.00		1.29	37.0	0.0	0.71	.250	1.29	6.43
21	Freddy Garcia F. Garcia	10	ALDS	2	0	1	.000	2	8.31	0	0	0	8.2	15	8	8	1	5	0	0	0	46	1	10.38	5.19	2.00	1.04	21.7	10.9	2.31	.467	8.31	15.58
22	Kyle Bradish K. Bradish	9	ALDS	1	0	1	.000	1	3.86	0	0	0	4.2	7	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	22	0	17.36	1.93	9.00	0.00	40.9	4.5	1.71	.583	3.86	13.50
23	Lance McCullers Jr. L. McCullers Jr.	9	ALDS	3	1	0	1.000	2	3.09	0	0	0	11.2	12	4	5	3	1	1	0	0	47	0	6.94	0.77	9.00	2.31	19.1	2.1	1.11	.273	3.86	9.26
24	Tim Hudson T. Hudson	9	ALDS	2	0	0		2	5.25	0	0	0	12.0	18	7	7	4	3	0	0	0	54	0	6.75	2.25	3.00	3.00	16.7	5.6	1.75	.368	5.25	13.50
25	George Kirby G. Kirby	8	ALDS	1	0	0		1	3.60	0	0	0	5.0	6	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	22	0	14.40	1.80	8.00	1.80	36.4	4.5	1.40	.417	3.60	10.80

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