most strikeouts per game against starting pitchers

Bob Dresser and Art Thompson are tied for the most career strikeouts per game pitched, with 8.

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most strikeouts per game by a player against starting pitchers

	NAME	SO/G	SO	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	Bob Dresser B. Dresser	8	8	1	0	1	.000	1	3.00	1	0	0	9.0	12	3	6	0	0	0	0		38	0	8.00	0.00		0.00	21.1	0.0	1.33	.400	6.00	104	0.89	29	12.00	2.1
2	Art Thompson A. Thompson	8	8	1	0	1	.000	1	6.75	1	0	0	8.0	10	6	11	0	3		0		38	2	9.00	3.38	2.67	0.00	21.1	7.9	1.63		12.38	226	2.40	92	11.25	0.1
3	Randy Johnson R. Johnson	7.89	4,875	618	303	166	.646	603	3.29	100	37	2	4135.1	3,346	1,513	1,703	411	1,497	190	7	37	17,067	109	10.61	3.26	3.26	0.89	28.6	8.8	1.17	.291	3.71	75	3.18	73	7.28	554.3
4	Jose Fernandez J. Fernandez	7.75	589	76	38	17	.691	76	2.58	0	0	0	471.1	357	135	150	31	140	13	0	12	1,888	16	11.25	2.67	4.21	0.59	31.2	7.4	1.05	.292	2.86	68	2.43	64	6.82	73
5	Jacob Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	7.73	309	40	19	8	.704	39	2.53	1	1	0	217.0	130	61	71	21	66	12	0	0	844	6	12.82	2.74	4.68	0.87	36.6	7.8	0.90	.250	2.94	61	2.58	62	5.39	37.8
6	Doc Oberlander D. Oberlander	7.67	23	3	1	2	.333	3	5.26	3	0	0	25.2	27	15	33	2	18	1	0		123	5	8.06	6.31	1.28	0.70	18.7	14.6	1.75	.316	11.57	172	4.03	137	9.47	-3.1
7	Juan Pena J. Pena	7.5	15	2	2	0	1.000	2	0.69	0	0	0	13.0	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	49	0	10.38	2.08	5.00	0.00	30.6	6.1	0.92	.290	0.69	14	1.51	32	6.23	4.7
8	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	7.36	2,010	273	105	74	.587	273	2.70	4	2	0	1670.0	1,290	501	538	163	382	25	0	16	6,585	33	10.83	2.06	5.26	0.88	30.5	5.8	1.00	.281	2.90	69	2.74	67	6.95	252.4
9	Mark Prior M. Prior	7.14	757	106	42	29	.592	106	3.51	5	1	0	657.0	582	256	277	77	223	31	0	10	2,771	21	10.37	3.05	3.39	1.05	27.3	8.0	1.23	.300	3.79	81	3.40	78	7.97	70.6
10	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	7.12	3,525	495	221	124	.641	486	3.28	12	5	0	3013.0	2,485	1,098	1,171	366	804	115	2	20	12,212	82	10.53	2.40	4.38	1.09	28.9	6.6	1.09	.286	3.50	79	3.28	79	7.42	291
11	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	7.08	5,714	807	324	292	.526	773	3.19	222	61	3	5386.0	3,923	1,911	2,178	321	2,795	158	13	78	22,575	277	9.55	4.67	2.04	0.54	25.3	12.4	1.25	.265	3.64	90	2.96	83	6.56	370.2
12	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	7.05	2,356	334	160	87	.648	334	3.18	8	5	0	2052.2	1,712	725	776	230	521	63	0	7	8,263	58	10.33	2.28	4.52	1.01	28.5	6.3	1.09	.291	3.40	79	3.17	77	7.51	222.3
13	Chris Saenz C. Saenz	7	7	1	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	0	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	24	0	10.50	4.50	2.33	0.00	29.2	12.5	0.83	.154	0.00	0	2.71	61	3.00	1.1
14	Charlie Guth C. Guth	7	7	1	1	0	1.000	1	5.00	1	0	0	9.0	12	5	8	0	1		0		42	4	7.00	1.00	7.00	0.00	16.7	2.4	1.44		8.00	204	1.31	54	12.00	1.2
15	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	6.99	2,075	297	115	93	.553	297	3.65	2	1	0	1778.0	1,460	721	756	231	563	83	0	8	7,305	83	10.50	2.85	3.69	1.17	28.4	7.7	1.14	.282	3.83	87	3.58	85	7.39	120
16	Stephen Strasburg S. Strasburg	6.98	1,723	247	113	62	.646	247	3.24	2	2	0	1470.0	1,217	530	582	149	394	53	0	20	5,962	44	10.55	2.41	4.37	0.91	28.9	6.6	1.10	.293	3.56	80	3.01	75	7.45	165.9
17	Spencer Strider S. Strider	6.86	672	98	42	26	.618	85	3.86	0	0	0	494.0	401	212	222	61	180	21	3	2	2,046	15	12.24	3.28	3.73	1.11	32.8	8.8	1.18	.306	4.04	91	3.27	79	7.31	46.6
18	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	6.84	561	82	30	24	.556	82	2.53	1	0	0	465.2	351	131	145	35	115	21	0	0	1,841	6	10.84	2.22	4.88	0.68	30.5	6.2	1.00	.285	2.80	59	2.56	62	6.78	80.8
19	Dylan Cease D. Cease	6.8	1,448	213	74	63	.540	213	3.68	4	4	0	1165.2	947	477	526	131	495	38	0	9	4,905	60	11.18	3.82	2.93	1.01	29.5	10.1	1.24	.292	4.06	88	3.50	82	7.31	96.9
20	Cam Schlittler C. Schlittler	6.79	285	42	16	9	.640	42	2.36	0	0	0	236.2	175	62	69	22	73	11	0	0	955	3	10.84	2.78	3.90	0.84	29.8	7.6	1.05	.271	2.62	57	2.96	70	6.65	33
21	Charlie Geggus C. Geggus	6.78	156	23	10	9	.526	21	2.54	19	0	0	177.1	143	50	100	2	38		2		733	23	7.92	1.93	4.11	0.10	21.3	5.2	1.02		5.08	85	2.30	89	7.26	4.8
22	Hunter Greene H. Greene	6.77	650	96	27	31	.466	96	3.82	2	2	0	523.1	415	222	233	74	188	39	0	0	2,181	22	11.18	3.23	3.46	1.27	29.8	8.6	1.15	.277	4.01	87	3.81	88	7.14	30.6
23	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	6.75	1,039	154	71	36	.664	152	3.31	5	2	0	939.0	841	345	367	112	219	19	1	1	3,816	35	9.96	2.10	4.74	1.07	27.2	5.7	1.13	.300	3.52	78	3.26	77	8.06	101.1
24	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	6.71	765	114	47	22	.681	114	2.83	1	1	0	614.1	443	193	205	60	208	30	0	2	2,479	52	11.21	3.05	3.68	0.88	30.9	8.4	1.06	.270	3.00	67	3.09	72	6.49	77.9
25	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	6.71	3,052	455	223	96	.699	451	2.53	25	15	0	2855.1	2,193	804	881	235	713	46	1	28	11,279	108	9.62	2.25	4.28	0.74	27.1	6.3	1.02	.271	2.78	65	2.85	70	6.91	375.7

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