pitcher most stikeouts per game before all star

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	7.53	1,740	231	90	59	.604	231	2.50	4	2	0	1443.1	1,104	401	438	129	325	24	0	13	5,669	28	10.85	2.03	5.35	0.80	30.7	5.7	0.99	.283	2.73	64	2.63	65	6.88	233.9
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	7.3	3,408	467	215	112	.657	458	3.16	12	5	0	2881.0	2,349	1,012	1,085	337	756	112	2	20	11,640	78	10.65	2.36	4.51	1.05	29.3	6.5	1.08	.286	3.39	76	3.18	77	7.34	307.8
9	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	43	3.01	76	6.00	2.3
10	Spencer Strider S. Strider	7.21	519	72	31	15	.674	59	3.60	0	0	0	354.2	265	142	151	37	120	16	3	2	1,449	13	13.17	3.05	4.33	0.94	35.8	8.3	1.09	.301	3.83	84	2.76	67	6.72	54.2
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	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	7.08	262	37	15	9	.625	37	1.93	1	0	0	224.0	150	48	53	15	52	8	0	0	859	3	10.53	2.09	5.04	0.60	30.5	6.1	0.90	.259	2.13	46	2.45	61	6.03	38.8
15	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
16	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	7.07	608	86	38	19	.667	86	3.01	1	1	0	481.2	348	161	169	53	173	24	0	2	1,951	42	11.36	3.23	3.51	0.99	31.2	8.9	1.08	.270	3.16	71	3.30	77	6.50	50.1
17	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
18	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
19	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
20	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
21	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	6.83	2,983	437	213	94	.694	434	2.51	25	15	0	2763.1	2,114	772	847	229	687	44	1	28	10,907	104	9.72	2.24	4.34	0.75	27.3	6.3	1.01	.271	2.76	64	2.83	70	6.89	366.5
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	21.5
24	Robbie Ray R. Ray	6.65	1,635	246	85	74	.535	242	3.89	1	1	0	1336.0	1,154	578	614	200	566	47	1	19	5,648	56	11.01	3.81	2.89	1.35	28.9	10.0	1.29	.298	4.14	93	4.02	98	7.77	11.2
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