what day of the week do mlb pitchers throw the most strikeouts

Shohei Ohtani fanned the most hitters this season, with 63 strikeouts on Wednesdays.

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Assumption:2026 season
Data note: Strikeouts: player game data complete from 1901
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	NAME	SO	WEEKDAY	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	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	63	Wednesday	10	7	0	1.000	10	1.63	0	0	0	60.2	38	11	14	1	18	3	0	0	237	0	9.35	2.67	3.50	0.15	26.6	7.6	0.92	.243	2.08	5.64
2	Cam Schlittler C. Schlittler	60	Friday	7	6	0	1.000	7	0.42	0	0	0	43.0	21	2	3	1	12	2	0	0	163	0	12.56	2.51	5.00	0.21	36.8	7.4	0.77	.227	0.63	4.40
3	Taj Bradley T. Bradley	58	Tuesday	7	4	2	.667	7	3.40	0	0	0	42.1	33	16	16	5	12	2	0	0	174	4	12.33	2.55	4.83	1.06	33.3	6.9	1.06	.289	3.40	7.02
4	Jacob Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	57	Sunday	7	3	2	.600	7	1.64	0	0	0	38.1	17	7	9	4	7	3	0	0	141	2	13.38	1.64	8.14	0.94	40.4	5.0	0.63	.186	2.11	3.99
5	Jacob Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	55	Friday	6	5	1	.833	6	0.70	1	1	0	38.1	14	3	3	1	11	0	0	0	137	2	12.91	2.58	5.00	0.23	40.1	8.0	0.65	.186	0.70	3.29
6	Emmet Sheehan E. Sheehan	54	Sunday	10	1	5	.167	9	4.36	0	0	0	43.1	35	21	22	7	17	4	0	0	187	0	11.22	3.53	3.18	1.45	28.9	9.1	1.20	.267	4.57	7.27
7	Cristopher Sánchez C. Sánchez	52	Saturday	6	4	1	.800	6	0.66	1	1	0	41.0	33	3	6	2	9	0	0	0	163	1	11.41	1.98	5.78	0.44	31.9	5.5	1.02	.310	1.32	7.24
8	Sean Burke S. Burke	52	Saturday	7	3	3	.500	6	3.47	0	0	0	36.1	36	14	16	5	16	2	0	0	160	2	12.88	3.96	3.25	1.24	32.5	10.0	1.43	.365	3.96	8.92
9	Chris Sale C. Sale	52	Friday	8	3	3	.500	8	1.88	0	0	0	48.0	34	10	11	2	7	4	0	0	183	0	9.75	1.31	7.43	0.38	28.4	3.8	0.85	.271	2.06	6.38
10	Yoshinobu Yamamoto Y. Yamamoto	51	Saturday	9	5	3	.625	9	2.51	0	0	0	61.0	34	17	17	5	17	1	0	1	233	0	7.52	2.51	3.00	0.74	21.9	7.3	0.84	.182	2.51	5.02
11	Jesús Luzardo J. Luzardo	51	Tuesday	7	4	1	.800	7	1.37	0	0	0	46.0	32	7	11	2	14	2	0	0	182	2	9.98	2.74	3.64	0.39	28.0	7.7	1.00	.265	2.15	6.26
12	Chase Burns C. Burns	51	Tuesday	7	5	0	1.000	7	2.35	0	0	0	38.1	32	10	14	5	11	0	0	0	157	1	11.97	2.58	4.64	1.17	32.5	7.0	1.12	.300	3.29	7.51
13	Zack Wheeler Z. Wheeler	50	Tuesday	6	2	1	.667	6	2.37	0	0	0	38.0	28	10	10	4	5	2	0	0	144	0	11.84	1.18	10.00	0.95	34.7	3.5	0.87	.289	2.37	6.63
14	Logan Gilbert L. Gilbert	50	Sunday	7	3	1	.750	7	2.48	0	0	0	40.0	23	11	11	4	8	0	0	0	147	1	11.25	1.80	6.25	0.90	34.0	5.4	0.78	.224	2.48	5.18
15	Jacob Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	50	Tuesday	6	3	1	.750	6	2.31	0	0	0	35.0	22	9	9	4	8	2	0	0	134	0	12.86	2.06	6.25	1.03	37.3	6.0	0.86	.257	2.31	5.66
16	Gavin Williams G. Williams	49	Sunday	6	3	1	.750	6	2.78	0	0	0	35.2	32	11	12	1	9	0	0	0	143	2	12.36	2.27	5.44	0.25	34.3	6.3	1.15	.369	3.03	8.07
17	Dylan Cease D. Cease	49	Saturday	5	3	1	.750	5	2.48	1	1	0	32.2	17	9	10	1	16	0	0	0	129	1	13.50	4.41	3.06	0.28	38.0	12.4	1.01	.254	2.76	4.68
18	George Kirby G. Kirby	48	Wednesday	8	0	5	.000	8	5.02	0	0	0	43.0	56	24	25	5	17	0	0	0	194	0	10.05	3.56	2.82	1.05	24.7	8.8	1.70	.411	5.23	11.72
19	Reid Detmers R. Detmers	48	Saturday	6	2	0	1.000	6	3.89	0	0	0	34.2	32	15	15	3	6	1	0	0	141	1	12.46	1.56	8.00	0.78	34.0	4.3	1.10	.349	3.89	8.31
20	Braxton Ashcraft B. Ashcraft	47	Saturday	7	3	2	.600	7	4.30	0	0	0	37.2	39	18	18	7	6	2	0	0	157	3	11.23	1.43	7.83	1.67	29.9	3.8	1.19	.337	4.30	9.32
21	MacKenzie Gore M. Gore	47	Wednesday	8	1	5	.167	8	6.41	0	0	0	39.1	47	28	28	6	17	1	0	1	179	1	10.75	3.89	2.76	1.37	26.3	9.5	1.63	.380	6.41	10.75
22	Michael Wacha M. Wacha	47	Saturday	8	3	2	.600	8	1.64	0	0	0	55.0	38	10	14	7	10	2	0	0	210	1	7.69	1.64	4.70	1.15	22.4	4.8	0.87	.215	2.29	6.22
23	Justin Wrobleski J. Wrobleski	46	Tuesday	8	5	0	1.000	6	2.98	0	0	0	42.1	36	14	15	7	6	2	0	0	169	1	9.78	1.28	7.67	1.49	27.2	3.6	0.99	.269	3.19	7.65
24	Shane Baz S. Baz	45	Tuesday	8	3	3	.500	8	4.18	0	0	0	47.1	50	22	22	4	15	0	0	0	204	3	8.56	2.85	3.00	0.76	22.1	7.4	1.37	.329	4.18	9.51
25	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	45	Tuesday	7	2	3	.400	7	5.73	0	0	0	37.2	34	24	24	5	9	1	0	0	158	2	10.75	2.15	5.00	1.19	28.5	5.7	1.14	.296	5.73	8.12

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