what reliever had most strikeouts in 2005

Brad Lidge fanned the most hitters by a relief pitcher in 2005, with 103 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	Brad Lidge B. Lidge	103	2005	HOU	70	4	4	.500	0	2.29	0	0	42	70.2	58	18	21	5	23	3	65	1	291	8	13.12	2.93	4.48	0.64	35.4	7.9	1.15	.338	2.67	7.39
2	B.J. Ryan	100	2005	BAL	69	1	4	.200	0	2.43	0	0	36	70.1	54	19	20	4	26	2	61	2	290	5	12.80	3.33	3.85	0.51	34.5	9.0	1.14	.316	2.56	6.91
3	Scot Shields S. Shields	98	2005	LAA	78	10	11	.476	0	2.75	0	0	7	91.2	66	28	33	5	37	2	21	2	375	12	9.62	3.63	2.65	0.49	26.1	9.9	1.12	.262	3.24	6.48
4	Ugueth Urbina U. Urbina	97	2005	TOT	81	5	6	.455	0	3.62	0	0	10	79.2	56	32	34	12	39	1	22	4	330	1	10.96	4.41	2.49	1.36	29.4	11.8	1.19	.243	3.84	6.33
5	Joe Nathan J. Nathan	94	2005	MIN	69	7	4	.636	0	2.70	0	0	43	70.0	46	21	22	5	22	0	58	1	276	2	12.09	2.83	4.27	0.64	34.1	8.0	0.97	.265	2.83	5.91
6	Francisco Rodriguez F. Rodriguez	91	2005	LAA	66	2	5	.286	0	2.67	0	0	45	67.1	45	20	20	7	32	0	58	3	279	8	12.16	4.28	2.84	0.94	32.6	11.5	1.14	.255	2.67	6.01
7	Brian Fuentes B. Fuentes	91	2005	COL	78	2	5	.286	0	2.91	0	0	31	74.1	59	24	25	6	34	10	55	4	321	8	11.02	4.12	2.68	0.73	28.3	10.6	1.25	.294	3.03	7.14
8	Michael Wuertz M. Wuertz	89	2005	CHC	75	6	2	.750	0	3.81	0	0	0	75.2	60	32	36	6	40	0	12	7	319	7	10.59	4.76	2.23	0.71	27.9	12.5	1.32	.293	4.28	7.14
9	Kyle Farnsworth K. Farnsworth	87	2005	TOT	72	1	1	.500	0	2.19	0	0	16	70.0	44	17	18	5	27	3	34	0	277	3	11.19	3.47	3.22	0.64	31.4	9.7	1.01	.252	2.31	5.66
10	Billy Wagner B. Wagner	87	2005	PHI	75	4	3	.571	0	1.51	0	0	38	77.2	45	13	17	6	20	3	70	2	297	3	10.08	2.32	4.35	0.70	29.3	6.7	0.84	.215	1.97	5.21
11	Justin Duchscherer J. Duchscherer	85	2005	OAK	65	7	4	.636	0	2.21	0	0	5	85.2	67	21	25	7	19	2	24	3	338	2	8.93	2.00	4.47	0.74	25.1	5.6	1.00	.267	2.63	7.04
12	Juan Rincon J. Rincon	84	2005	MIN	75	6	6	.500	0	2.45	0	0	0	77.0	63	21	26	2	30	3	18	3	319	5	9.82	3.51	2.80	0.23	26.3	9.4	1.21	.305	3.04	7.36
13	Rudy Seanez R. Seanez	84	2005	SDP	57	7	1	.875	0	2.69	0	0	0	60.1	49	18	19	4	22	2	9	4	248	4	12.53	3.28	3.82	0.60	33.9	8.9	1.18	.331	2.83	7.31
14	Mariano Rivera M. Rivera	80	2005	NYY	71	7	4	.636	0	1.38	0	0	43	78.1	50	12	18	2	18	4	67	0	306	0	9.19	2.07	4.44	0.23	26.1	5.9	0.87	.238	2.07	5.74
15	Francisco Cordero F. Cordero	79	2005	TEX	69	3	1	.750	0	3.39	0	0	37	69.0	61	26	28	5	30	4	60	2	302	0	10.30	3.91	2.63	0.65	26.2	9.9	1.32	.304	3.65	7.96
16	Ryan Madson R. Madson	79	2005	PHI	78	6	5	.545	0	4.14	0	0	0	87.0	84	40	44	11	25	6	10	6	365	6	8.17	2.59	3.16	1.14	21.6	6.8	1.25	.299	4.55	8.69
17	Andrew Sisco A. Sisco	76	2005	KCR	67	2	5	.286	0	3.11	0	0	0	75.1	68	26	27	6	42	2	13	4	329	2	9.08	5.02	1.81	0.72	23.1	12.8	1.46	.305	3.23	8.12
18	Jose Valverde J. Valverde	75	2005	ARI	61	3	4	.429	0	2.44	0	0	15	66.1	51	18	19	5	20	2	34	1	268	3	10.18	2.71	3.75	0.68	28.0	7.5	1.07	.277	2.58	6.92
19	Jay Witasick J. Witasick	73	2005	TOT	60	1	5	.167	0	2.84	0	0	1	63.1	53	20	26	4	29	6	11	5	277	5	10.37	4.12	2.52	0.57	26.4	10.5	1.29	.297	3.69	7.53
20	Rafael Betancourt R. Betancourt	73	2005	CLE	54	4	3	.571	0	2.79	0	0	1	67.2	57	21	23	5	17	0	12	2	272	0	9.71	2.26	4.29	0.67	26.8	6.3	1.09	.294	3.06	7.58
21	Aaron Heilman A. Heilman	72	2005	NYM	46	3	0	1.000	0	2.18	0	0	5	66.0	49	16	18	1	24	5	20	4	268	1	9.82	3.27	3.00	0.14	26.9	9.0	1.11	.289	2.45	6.68
22	Huston Street H. Street	72	2005	OAK	67	5	1	.833	0	1.72	0	0	23	78.1	53	15	17	3	26	2	47	4	306	1	8.27	2.99	2.77	0.34	23.5	8.5	1.01	.246	1.95	6.09
23	Mike MacDougal M. MacDougal	72	2005	KCR	68	5	6	.455	0	3.33	0	0	21	70.1	69	26	32	6	24	3	53	2	298	6	9.21	3.07	3.00	0.77	24.2	8.1	1.32	.326	4.09	8.83
24	Duaner Sanchez D. Sanchez	71	2005	LAD	79	4	7	.364	0	3.73	0	0	8	82.0	75	34	36	8	36	3	31	6	353	7	7.79	3.95	1.97	0.88	20.1	10.2	1.35	.285	3.95	8.23
25	Scott Linebrink S. Linebrink	70	2005	SDP	73	8	1	.889	0	1.83	0	0	1	73.2	55	15	17	4	23	0	17	4	288	3	8.55	2.81	3.04	0.49	24.3	8.0	1.06	.267	2.08	6.72

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