most strikeouts per game by pitcher in a career

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

	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	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
6	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	7.51	1,766	235	93	59	.612	235	2.49	4	2	0	1468.1	1,120	407	444	130	329	24	0	13	5,762	28	10.82	2.02	5.37	0.80	30.6	5.7	0.99	.282	2.72	64	2.62	64	6.86	240
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	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	7.29	3,419	469	215	112	.657	460	3.17	12	5	0	2891.0	2,358	1,017	1,090	338	759	112	2	20	11,680	79	10.64	2.36	4.50	1.05	29.3	6.5	1.08	.286	3.39	76	3.18	77	7.34	309
9	Spencer Strider S. Strider	7.26	552	76	34	16	.680	63	3.52	0	0	0	378.2	280	148	157	37	129	16	3	2	1,544	13	13.12	3.07	4.28	0.88	35.8	8.4	1.08	.300	3.73	82	2.68	65	6.65	61.1
10	Logan Henderson L. Henderson	7.25	29	4	3	0	1.000	4	1.71	0	0	0	21.0	14	4	4	3	6	0	0	0	81	0	12.43	2.57	4.83	1.29	35.8	7.4	0.95	.256	1.71	42	3.03	75	6.00	2.4
11	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
12	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	7.12	2,007	282	110	88	.556	282	3.58	2	1	0	1706.0	1,394	678	712	217	544	77	0	8	7,009	79	10.59	2.87	3.69	1.14	28.6	7.8	1.14	.283	3.76	85	3.53	84	7.35	125.8
13	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	7.1	2,251	317	153	80	.657	317	3.18	8	5	0	1954.0	1,627	690	740	217	500	61	0	8	7,861	58	10.37	2.30	4.50	1.00	28.6	6.4	1.09	.292	3.41	79	3.16	77	7.49	213.5
14	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
15	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	7.04	958	136	62	32	.660	134	3.22	5	2	0	843.0	752	302	323	94	188	18	1	1	3,415	34	10.23	2.01	5.10	1.00	28.1	5.5	1.12	.305	3.45	76	3.08	73	8.03	108
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	6.95	285	41	15	10	.600	41	1.99	1	0	0	244.0	166	54	59	15	62	9	0	0	943	4	10.51	2.29	4.60	0.55	30.2	6.6	0.93	.264	2.18	47	2.46	61	6.12	42.9
20	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	6.87	611	89	38	19	.667	89	3.00	1	1	0	485.2	351	162	170	53	174	24	0	2	1,967	44	11.32	3.22	3.51	0.98	31.1	8.8	1.08	.270	3.15	71	3.29	77	6.50	50.9
21	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	6.8	3,000	441	216	94	.697	438	2.52	25	15	0	2787.1	2,133	779	854	233	692	44	1	28	10,999	105	9.69	2.23	4.34	0.75	27.3	6.3	1.01	.270	2.76	64	2.84	70	6.89	365.7
22	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
23	Hunter Greene H. Greene	6.72	558	83	22	28	.440	83	3.74	1	1	0	447.2	355	186	194	64	167	39	0	0	1,877	18	11.22	3.36	3.34	1.29	29.7	8.9	1.17	.277	3.90	85	3.90	90	7.14	21.9
24	Robbie Ray R. Ray	6.63	1,658	250	85	76	.528	246	3.89	1	1	0	1357.0	1,177	587	626	204	573	47	1	19	5,742	57	11.00	3.80	2.89	1.35	28.9	10.0	1.29	.298	4.15	93	4.03	98	7.81	10.5
25	Pedro Martinez P. Martinez	6.63	3,154	476	219	100	.687	409	2.93	46	17	3	2827.1	2,221	919	1,006	239	760	141	23	30	11,394	62	10.04	2.42	4.15	0.76	27.7	6.7	1.05	.279	3.20	66	2.91	68	7.07	454.6