most strikeouts in the playoffs by a pitcher in 2021

Max Fried struck out the most hitters in the 2021 postseason, with 29 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	H/9
1	Max Fried M. Fried	29	2021	ATL	5	2	2	.500	5	4.23	0	0	0	27.2	30	13	13	3	3	1	0	0	114	2	9.43	0.98	9.67	0.98	25.4	2.6	1.19	.346	4.23	9.76
2	Nathan Eovaldi N. Eovaldi	25	2021	BOS	5	2	2	.500	4	4.79	0	0	0	20.2	19	11	11	2	5	0	0	2	87	0	10.89	2.18	5.00	0.87	28.7	5.7	1.16	.309	4.79	8.27
3	Tyler Matzek T. Matzek	24	2021	ATL	13	3	0	1.000	0	1.72	0	0	0	15.2	10	3	3	0	4	0	1	1	60	0	13.79	2.30	6.00	0.00	40.0	6.7	0.89	.313	1.72	5.74
4	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	23	2021	LAD	4	0	1	.000	3	2.16	0	0	1	16.2	10	4	4	2	5	1	1	0	68	1	12.42	2.70	4.60	1.08	33.8	7.4	0.90	.216	2.16	5.40
5	Charlie Morton C. Morton	22	2021	ATL	4	0	1	.000	4	3.24	0	0	0	16.2	11	6	6	2	10	2	0	0	72	2	11.88	5.40	2.20	1.08	30.6	13.9	1.26	.250	3.24	5.94
6	Luis Garcia L. Garcia	21	2021	HOU	5	1	3	.250	5	8.04	0	0	0	15.2	13	14	14	3	12	0	0	1	73	0	12.06	6.89	1.75	1.72	28.8	16.4	1.60	.270	8.04	7.47
7	Cristian Javier C. Javier	19	2021	HOU	6	0	1	.000	0	3.38	0	0	0	10.2	7	4	4	3	6	1	0	0	46	1	16.03	5.06	3.17	2.53	41.3	13.0	1.22	.235	3.38	5.91
8	Walker Buehler W. Buehler	18	2021	LAD	4	0	2	.000	4	4.91	0	0	0	18.1	22	10	12	3	9	0	0	0	83	0	8.84	4.42	2.00	1.47	21.7	10.8	1.69	.358	5.89	10.80
9	A.J. Minter	18	2021	ATL	8	1	1	.500	0	3.00	0	0	0	12.0	8	4	4	0	4	1	0	2	49	0	13.50	3.00	4.50	0.00	36.7	8.2	1.00	.308	3.00	6.00
10	Logan Webb L. Webb	17	2021	SFG	2	1	0	1.000	2	0.61	0	0	0	14.2	9	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	53	0	10.43	0.61	17.00	0.00	32.1	1.9	0.68	.257	0.61	5.52
11	Framber Valdez F. Valdez	16	2021	HOU	5	1	1	.500	5	7.78	0	0	0	19.2	28	17	18	6	8	2	0	0	92	0	7.32	3.66	2.00	2.75	17.4	8.7	1.83	.367	8.24	12.81
12	Ian Anderson I. Anderson	16	2021	ATL	4	2	0	1.000	4	1.59	0	0	0	17.0	9	3	3	1	7	2	0	0	68	0	8.47	3.71	2.29	0.53	23.5	10.3	0.94	.190	1.59	4.76
13	Julio Urías J. Urías	15	2021	LAD	4	1	1	.500	2	5.40	0	0	0	15.0	17	9	9	4	3	0	0	1	65	1	9.00	1.80	5.00	2.40	23.1	4.6	1.33	.302	5.40	10.20
14	Kenley Jansen K. Jansen	14	2021	LAD	8	2	0	1.000	0	0.00	0	0	1	7.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	6	1	25	0	18.00	1.29	14.00	0.00	56.0	4.0	0.57	.300	0.00	3.86
15	Nick Pivetta N. Pivetta	14	2021	BOS	3	1	0	1.000	1	2.63	0	0	0	13.2	9	4	4	3	5	0	1	0	53	1	9.22	3.29	2.80	1.98	26.4	9.4	1.02	.194	2.63	5.93
16	Ryan Pressly R. Pressly	14	2021	HOU	9	0	0		0	0.93	0	0	1	9.2	6	1	1	1	2	1	6	0	38	1	13.03	1.86	7.00	0.93	36.8	5.3	0.83	.250	0.93	5.59
17	Eduardo Rodriguez E. Rodriguez	14	2021	BOS	3	1	1	.500	3	4.97	0	0	0	12.2	10	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	50	0	9.95	1.42	7.00	0.71	28.0	4.0	0.95	.273	4.97	7.11
18	Phil Maton P. Maton	14	2021	HOU	12	0	0		0	0.73	0	0	0	12.1	9	1	1	1	3	0	0	1	49	0	10.22	2.19	4.67	0.73	28.6	6.1	0.97	.258	0.73	6.57
19	Kendall Graveman K. Graveman	11	2021	HOU	9	1	0	1.000	0	1.64	0	0	0	11.0	7	2	2	1	4	1	4	0	44	0	9.00	3.27	2.75	0.82	25.0	9.1	1.00	.222	1.64	5.73
20	Corey Knebel C. Knebel	11	2021	LAD	7	0	0		2	3.18	0	0	0	5.2	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	23	1	17.47	1.59	11.00	0.00	47.8	4.3	1.06	.455	3.18	7.94
21	Chris Sale C. Sale	11	2021	BOS	3	0	1	.000	3	8.00	0	0	0	9.0	12	8	10	2	4	1	0	0	45	1	11.00	4.00	2.75	2.00	24.4	8.9	1.78	.370	10.00	12.00
22	Ryne Stanek R. Stanek	11	2021	HOU	13	2	0	1.000	0	2.45	0	0	0	11.0	5	3	3	2	2	0	3	0	38	0	9.00	1.64	5.50	1.64	28.9	5.3	0.64	.130	2.45	4.09
23	Tanner Houck T. Houck	10	2021	BOS	5	1	0	1.000	0	5.23	0	0	0	10.1	7	6	6	3	0	1	0	0	38	0	8.71	0.00		2.61	26.3	0.0	0.68	.167	5.23	6.10
24	Jake Odorizzi J. Odorizzi	10	2021	HOU	2	0	0		0	5.68	0	0	0	6.1	8	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	28	0	14.21	0.00		2.84	35.7	0.0	1.26	.375	5.68	11.37
25	Luke Jackson L. Jackson	9	2021	ATL	11	0	1	.000	0	5.19	0	0	0	8.2	11	5	5	1	4	1	0	1	40	0	9.35	4.15	2.25	1.04	22.5	10.0	1.73	.400	5.19	11.42