what reliever had most strikeouts in 2003

Eric Gagne struck out the most hitters by a relief pitcher in 2003, with 137 strikeouts.

	NAME	SO	SEASON	TM	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	Eric Gagne E. Gagne	137	2003	LAD	77	2	3	.400	0	1.20	0	0	55	82.1	37	11	12	2	20	3	67	2	306	2	14.98	2.19	6.85	0.22	44.8	6.5	0.69	.243	1.31	4.04
2	Billy Wagner B. Wagner	105	2003	HOU	78	1	4	.200	0	1.78	0	0	44	86.0	52	17	18	8	23	3	67	5	335	4	10.99	2.41	4.57	0.84	31.3	6.9	0.87	.224	1.88	5.44
3	Guillermo Mota G. Mota	99	2003	LAD	76	6	3	.667	0	1.97	0	0	1	105.0	78	23	23	7	26	1	18	4	410	0	8.49	2.23	3.81	0.60	24.1	6.3	0.99	.256	1.97	6.69
4	Brad Lidge B. Lidge	97	2003	HOU	78	6	3	.667	0	3.60	0	0	1	85.0	60	34	36	6	42	5	9	7	349	4	10.27	4.45	2.31	0.64	27.8	12.0	1.20	.271	3.81	6.35
5	Octavio Dotel O. Dotel	97	2003	HOU	76	6	4	.600	0	2.48	0	0	4	87.0	53	24	25	9	31	3	13	2	346	2	10.03	3.21	3.13	0.93	28.0	9.0	0.97	.214	2.59	5.48
6	Francisco Rodriguez F. Rodriguez	95	2003	ANA	59	8	3	.727	0	3.03	0	0	2	86.0	50	29	30	12	35	2	23	5	334	7	9.94	3.66	2.71	1.26	28.4	10.5	0.99	.200	3.14	5.23
7	Kyle Farnsworth K. Farnsworth	92	2003	CHC	77	3	2	.600	0	3.30	0	0	0	76.1	53	28	31	6	36	0	13	1	312	6	10.85	4.24	2.56	0.71	29.5	11.5	1.17	.264	3.66	6.25
8	Tom Gordon T. Gordon	91	2003	CWS	66	7	6	.538	0	3.16	0	0	12	74.0	57	26	29	4	31	4	35	3	310	5	11.07	3.77	2.94	0.49	29.4	10.0	1.19	.294	3.53	6.93
9	Francisco Cordero F. Cordero	90	2003	TEX	73	5	8	.385	0	2.94	0	0	15	82.2	70	27	33	4	38	2	36	6	352	1	9.80	4.14	2.37	0.44	25.6	10.8	1.31	.303	3.59	7.62
10	Keith Foulke K. Foulke	88	2003	OAK	72	9	1	.900	0	2.08	0	0	43	86.2	57	20	21	10	20	7	67	2	338	0	9.14	2.08	4.40	1.04	26.0	5.9	0.89	.221	2.18	5.92
11	Damaso Marte D. Marte	87	2003	CWS	71	4	2	.667	0	1.58	0	0	11	79.2	50	14	16	3	34	3	25	6	314	1	9.83	3.84	2.56	0.34	27.7	10.8	1.05	.251	1.81	5.65
12	Mike Remlinger M. Remlinger	83	2003	CHC	73	6	5	.545	0	3.65	0	0	0	69.0	54	28	30	11	39	2	26	4	301	2	10.83	5.09	2.13	1.43	27.6	13.0	1.35	.259	3.91	7.04
13	Joe Nathan J. Nathan	83	2003	SFG	78	12	4	.750	0	2.96	0	0	0	79.0	51	26	26	7	33	3	9	3	316	4	9.46	3.76	2.52	0.80	26.3	10.4	1.06	.232	2.96	5.81
14	Brian Fuentes B. Fuentes	82	2003	COL	75	3	3	.500	0	2.75	0	0	4	75.1	64	23	24	7	34	6	23	2	320	2	9.80	4.06	2.41	0.84	25.6	10.6	1.30	.298	2.87	7.65
15	David Riske D. Riske	82	2003	CLE	68	2	2	.500	0	2.29	0	0	8	74.2	52	19	21	9	20	3	24	3	293	1	9.88	2.41	4.10	1.08	28.0	6.8	0.96	.240	2.53	6.27
16	Brendan Donnelly B. Donnelly	79	2003	ANA	63	2	2	.500	0	1.58	0	0	3	74.0	55	13	14	2	24	4	15	1	307	1	9.61	2.92	3.29	0.24	25.7	7.8	1.07	.268	1.70	6.69
17	Oscar Villarreal O. Villarreal	78	2003	ARI	85	10	7	.588	0	2.46	0	0	0	95.0	76	26	38	6	43	3	14	10	406	2	7.39	4.07	1.81	0.57	19.2	10.6	1.25	.254	3.60	7.20
18	Ugueth Urbina U. Urbina	78	2003	TOT	72	3	4	.429	0	2.81	0	0	32	77.0	56	24	25	8	31	0	48	2	316	4	9.12	3.62	2.52	0.94	24.7	9.8	1.13	.241	2.92	6.55
19	Armando Benitez A. Benitez	75	2003	TOT	69	4	4	.500	0	2.96	0	0	21	73.0	59	24	27	6	41	0	49	3	313	3	9.25	5.05	1.83	0.74	24.0	13.1	1.37	.277	3.33	7.27
20	LaTroy Hawkins L. Hawkins	75	2003	MIN	74	9	3	.750	0	1.86	0	0	2	77.1	69	16	20	4	15	1	12	1	310	5	8.73	1.75	5.00	0.47	24.2	4.8	1.09	.302	2.33	8.03
21	David Weathers D. Weathers	75	2003	NYM	77	1	6	.143	0	3.08	0	0	7	87.2	87	30	33	6	40	6	20	6	384	1	7.70	4.11	1.88	0.62	19.5	10.4	1.45	.315	3.39	8.93
22	Scott Williamson S. Williamson	74	2003	TOT	66	5	4	.556	0	4.16	0	0	21	62.2	54	29	30	7	34	1	40	6	276	12	10.63	4.88	2.18	1.01	26.8	12.3	1.40	.294	4.31	7.76
23	John Smoltz J. Smoltz	73	2003	ATL	62	0	2	.000	0	1.12	0	0	45	64.1	48	8	9	2	8	0	55	1	244	2	10.21	1.12	9.13	0.28	29.9	3.3	0.87	.286	1.26	6.72
24	Jose Valverde J. Valverde	71	2003	ARI	54	2	1	.667	0	2.15	0	0	10	50.1	24	12	16	4	26	2	33	2	204	2	12.70	4.65	2.73	0.72	34.8	12.7	0.99	.198	2.86	4.29
25	Julio Mateo J. Mateo	71	2003	SEA	50	4	0	1.000	0	3.15	0	0	1	85.2	69	30	32	14	13	5	17	1	338	1	7.46	1.37	5.46	1.47	21.0	3.8	0.96	.234	3.36	7.25

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