what pitcher has the most strikeouts on august 17

Nolan Ryan has struck out the most career batters on August 17, with 41 strikeouts.

	NAME	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	H/9
1	Nolan Ryan N. Ryan	41	6	1	1	.500	6	3.65	1	0	0	37.0	25	15	16	3	20	1	0	0	155	1	9.97	4.86	2.05	0.73	26.5	12.9	1.22	.244	3.89	6.08
2	Christy Mathewson C. Mathewson	39	7	4	3	.571	7	1.16	6	2	0	62.1	53		22	3	7	0	0		242	0	5.63	1.01	5.57	0.43	16.1	2.9	0.96	.259	3.18	7.65
3	Steve Carlton S. Carlton	38	7	5	2	.714	7	3.25	3	0	0	52.2	47	19	26	6	19	1	0	2	221	2	6.49	3.25	2.00	1.03	17.2	8.6	1.25	.261	4.44	8.03
4	Mike Mussina M. Mussina	35	6	5	0	1.000	6	1.67	1	1	0	43.0	34	8	10	1	9	0	0	0	164	1	7.33	1.88	3.89	0.21	21.3	5.5	1.00	.277	2.09	7.12
5	Johan Santana J. Santana	34	5	2	3	.400	5	3.31	2	1	0	35.1	30	13	14	5	5	1	0	0	141	1	8.66	1.27	6.80	1.27	24.1	3.5	0.99	.260	3.57	7.64
6	Matt Cain M. Cain	32	5	4	1	.800	5	2.45	0	0	0	33.0	17	9	10	2	12	2	0	0	131	0	8.73	3.27	2.67	0.55	24.4	9.2	0.88	.181	2.73	4.64
7	Roy Oswalt R. Oswalt	32	5	4	1	.800	5	1.91	0	0	0	37.2	26	8	8	4	6	0	0	0	137	1	7.65	1.43	5.33	0.96	23.4	4.4	0.85	.232	1.91	6.21
8	Walter Johnson W. Johnson	32	7	4	1	.800	7	1.21	6	2	0	59.1	38		14	0	22	1	0			4	4.85	3.34	1.45	0.00		9.4	1.01	.211	2.12	5.76
9	Jake Peavy J. Peavy	30	4	1	1	.500	3	2.05	0	0	0	22.0	11	5	5	2	4	0	0	0	81	0	12.27	1.64	7.50	0.82	37.0	4.9	0.68	.200	2.05	4.50
10	Bob Welch B. Welch	30	6	3	3	.500	6	4.12	0	0	0	39.1	40	18	19	3	16	0	0	1	168	1	6.86	3.66	1.88	0.69	17.9	9.5	1.42	.311	4.35	9.15
11	Rick Reuschel R. Reuschel	30	6	4	2	.667	6	2.06	5	2	0	48.0	36	11	13	2	5	1	0	1	182	3	5.63	0.94	6.00	0.38	16.5	2.7	0.85	.236	2.44	6.75
12	Roger Clemens R. Clemens	27	3	2	0	1.000	3	2.74	1	1	0	23.0	20	7	7	1	7	0	0	0	93	0	10.57	2.74	3.86	0.39	29.0	7.5	1.17	.328	2.74	7.83
13	Mario Soto M. Soto	27	4	3	1	.750	4	4.30	2	0	0	29.1	22	14	15	3	15	1	0	2	125	0	8.28	4.60	1.80	0.92	21.6	12.0	1.26	.241	4.60	6.75
14	Carlos Carrasco C. Carrasco	26	3	2	0	1.000	3	2.41	0	0	0	18.2	16	5	6	2	2	0	0	0	73	0	12.54	0.96	13.00	0.96	35.6	2.7	0.96	.326	2.89	7.71
15	Chris Sale C. Sale	26	4	2	2	.500	4	4.13	0	0	0	24.0	26	11	12	2	10	1	0	3	105	1	9.75	3.75	2.60	0.75	24.8	9.5	1.50	.364	4.50	9.75
16	A.J. Burnett	25	5	3	2	.600	5	3.00	1	0	0	33.0	22	11	11	3	12	1	0	0	132	1	6.82	3.27	2.08	0.82	18.9	9.1	1.03	.209	3.00	6.00
17	Eddie Plank E. Plank	25	6	2	3	.400	6	1.18	4	0	0	53.1	48		21	1	12	0	0			0	4.22	2.03	2.08	0.17		6.2	1.13	.303	3.54	8.10
18	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	24	3	1	1	.500	3	4.50	0	0	0	18.0	14	9	9	5	4	1	0	0	72	0	12.00	2.00	6.00	2.50	33.3	5.6	1.00	.237	4.50	7.00
19	Scott Kazmir S. Kazmir	24	4	2	1	.667	4	4.22	0	0	0	21.1	23	10	10	3	13	0	0	0	97	0	10.13	5.48	1.85	1.27	24.7	13.4	1.69	.351	4.22	9.70
20	Dwight Gooden D. Gooden	24	3	1	2	.333	3	3.38	0	0	0	21.1	20	8	8	2	3	0	0	0	85	0	10.13	1.27	8.00	0.84	28.2	3.5	1.08	.321	3.38	8.44
21	Jerry Koosman J. Koosman	24	7	3	2	.600	6	4.01	2	0	1	42.2	39	19	19	3	14	2	1	3	174	0	5.06	2.95	1.71	0.63	13.8	8.0	1.24	.275	4.01	8.23
22	Billy Pierce B. Pierce	24	5	3	1	.750	4	1.60	2	0	0	33.2	32	6	7	1	13	0	1	1	137	2	6.42	3.48	1.85	0.27	17.5	9.5	1.34	.313	1.87	8.55
23	Dazzy Vance D. Vance	24	5	2	1	.667	4	4.14	2	1	0	37.0	39	17	18	2	10	2	0		159	0	5.84	2.43	2.40	0.49	15.1	6.3	1.32	.306	4.38	9.49
24	Josh Beckett J. Beckett	23	4	2	1	.667	4	5.64	0	0	0	22.1	23	14	15	2	8	1	0	0	101	1	9.27	3.22	2.88	0.81	22.8	7.9	1.39	.313	6.04	9.27
25	Al Leiter A. Leiter	23	5	2	1	.667	4	2.17	0	0	0	29.0	16	7	7	0	21	2	0	1	121	2	7.14	6.52	1.10	0.00	19.0	17.4	1.28	.213	2.17	4.97

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Nolan Ryan has struck out the most career batters on August 17, with 41 strikeouts.

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