who leads the mlb in strikeouts per game

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 Misiorowski J. Misiorowski	7.5	225	30	13	6	.684	29	2.66	1	1	0	159.0	98	47	52	12	54	10	0	0	626	4	12.74	3.06	4.17	0.68	35.9	8.6	0.96	.265	2.94	64	2.47	59	5.55	30
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	Jacob deGrom J. deGrom	7.41	1,949	263	102	69	.596	263	2.62	4	2	0	1622.1	1,240	473	510	161	363	25	0	15	6,377	32	10.81	2.01	5.37	0.89	30.6	5.7	0.99	.278	2.83	67	2.75	67	6.88	243.3
9	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	7.16	3,503	489	221	121	.646	480	3.27	12	5	0	2985.0	2,460	1,084	1,157	363	790	115	2	20	12,089	80	10.56	2.38	4.43	1.09	29.0	6.5	1.09	.287	3.49	79	3.27	79	7.42	291.8
10	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
11	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
12	Gerrit Cole G. Cole	7.07	2,275	322	155	81	.657	322	3.17	8	5	0	1982.0	1,647	698	748	221	508	62	0	7	7,973	58	10.33	2.31	4.48	1.00	28.5	6.4	1.09	.291	3.40	79	3.17	77	7.48	213.4
13	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
14	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
15	Yu Darvish Y. Darvish	6.99	2,075	297	115	93	.553	297	3.65	2	1	0	1778.0	1,460	721	756	231	563	83	0	8	7,305	83	10.50	2.85	3.69	1.17	28.4	7.7	1.14	.282	3.83	87	3.58	85	7.39	120
16	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
17	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	6.96	995	143	66	34	.660	141	3.24	5	2	0	883.1	786	318	339	102	195	19	1	1	3,574	34	10.14	1.99	5.10	1.04	27.8	5.5	1.11	.302	3.45	76	3.15	75	8.01	106.9
18	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	6.94	493	71	27	20	.574	71	2.16	1	0	0	408.2	294	98	110	30	92	18	0	0	1,597	5	10.86	2.03	5.36	0.66	30.9	5.8	0.94	.274	2.42	51	2.48	60	6.47	74.4
19	Spencer Strider S. Strider	6.86	672	98	42	26	.618	85	3.86	0	0	0	494.0	401	212	222	61	180	21	3	2	2,046	15	12.24	3.28	3.73	1.11	32.8	8.8	1.18	.306	4.04	91	3.27	80	7.31	46.6
20	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
21	Hunter Greene H. Greene	6.78	617	91	25	29	.463	91	3.65	2	2	0	495.2	386	201	211	70	179	39	0	0	2,060	21	11.20	3.25	3.45	1.27	30.0	8.7	1.14	.274	3.83	83	3.83	88	7.01	28.1
22	Clayton Kershaw C. Kershaw	6.71	3,052	455	223	96	.699	451	2.53	25	15	0	2855.1	2,193	804	881	235	713	46	1	28	11,279	108	9.62	2.25	4.28	0.74	27.1	6.3	1.02	.271	2.78	65	2.85	70	6.91	375.7
23	Nolan McLean N. McLean	6.7	154	23	9	5	.643	23	3.08	0	0	0	131.1	93	45	53	12	48	11	0	0	532	4	10.55	3.29	3.21	0.82	28.9	9.0	1.07	.264	3.63	77	3.30	80	6.37	12.1
24	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	6.68	748	112	46	22	.676	112	2.81	1	1	0	602.1	431	188	199	59	204	30	0	2	2,428	52	11.18	3.05	3.67	0.88	30.8	8.4	1.05	.268	2.97	66	3.11	73	6.44	75.5
25	Dylan Cease D. Cease	6.67	1,341	201	69	61	.531	201	3.80	3	3	0	1088.1	910	460	507	126	461	38	0	9	4,607	57	11.09	3.81	2.91	1.04	29.1	10.0	1.26	.297	4.19	91	3.58	83	7.53	82.8

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