most pitcher strikeouts on 5/9 among current players

Michael Wacha and Patrick Corbin are tied for striking out the most career hitters by an active pitcher on May 9, with 25 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	Michael Wacha M. Wacha	25	5	4	0	1.000	5	3.03	0	0	0	29.2	24	10	11	1	12	1	0	0	127	1	7.58	3.64	2.08	0.30	19.7	9.4	1.21	.261	3.34	7.28
2	Patrick Corbin P. Corbin	25	5	2	2	.500	5	1.72	0	0	0	31.1	21	6	7	1	14	2	0	1	127	3	7.18	4.02	1.79	0.29	19.7	11.0	1.12	.235	2.01	6.03
3	Carlos Rodón C. Rodón	20	2	2	0	1.000	2	3.00	0	0	0	12.0	10	4	4	0	6	0	0	0	48	0	15.00	4.50	3.33	0.00	41.7	12.5	1.33	.455	3.00	7.50
4	Max Scherzer M. Scherzer	20	3	1	1	.500	3	4.50	0	0	0	18.0	18	9	9	3	8	0	0	0	80	1	10.00	4.00	2.50	1.50	25.0	10.0	1.44	.306	4.50	9.00
5	Aaron Nola A. Nola	19	4	1	2	.333	4	6.41	0	0	0	19.2	22	14	14	6	7	1	0	0	86	0	8.69	3.20	2.71	2.75	22.1	8.1	1.47	.302	6.41	10.07
6	Jose Quintana J. Quintana	19	4	2	0	1.000	4	1.27	0	0	0	21.1	14	3	5	1	13	1	0	0	91	1	8.02	5.48	1.46	0.42	20.9	14.3	1.27	.228	2.11	5.91
7	Clay Holmes C. Holmes	17	5	2	1	.667	2	2.93	0	0	0	15.1	11	5	6	1	8	1	1	0	64	1	9.98	4.70	2.13	0.59	26.6	12.5	1.24	.270	3.52	6.46
8	Luis Castillo L. Castillo	14	3	0	2	.000	3	7.90	0	0	0	13.2	15	12	12	4	5	1	0	0	62	0	9.22	3.29	2.80	2.63	22.6	8.1	1.46	.289	7.90	9.88
9	Kyle Freeland K. Freeland	13	3	0	2	.000	3	6.75	0	0	0	16.0	18	12	17	4	8	0	0	0	76	0	7.31	4.50	1.63	2.25	17.1	10.5	1.63	.275	9.56	10.13
10	Tarik Skubal T. Skubal	12	1	1	0	1.000	1	1.29	0	0	0	7.0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	24	0	15.43	0.00		0.00	50.0	0.0	0.29	.182	1.29	2.57
11	Framber Valdez F. Valdez	12	1	1	0	1.000	1	1.13	0	0	0	8.0	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	29	0	13.50	0.00		1.13	41.4	0.0	0.38	.125	1.13	3.38
12	Justin Verlander J. Verlander	12	2	1	1	.500	2	3.46	0	0	0	13.0	14	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	58	0	8.31	3.46	2.40	0.00	20.7	8.6	1.46	.341	3.46	9.69
13	Randy Vásquez R. Vásquez	11	2	2	0	1.000	2	2.45	0	0	0	11.0	12	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	45	1	9.00	0.82	11.00	1.64	24.4	2.2	1.18	.323	2.45	9.82
14	Erick Fedde E. Fedde	11	2	2	0	1.000	2	0.00	1	1	0	15.0	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	55	0	6.60	0.00		0.00	20.0	0.0	0.80	.279	0.00	7.20
15	Lucas Giolito L. Giolito	11	2	2	0	1.000	2	2.45	0	0	0	11.0	9	3	3	1	4	0	0	0	45	1	9.00	3.27	2.75	0.82	24.4	8.9	1.18	.276	2.45	7.36
16	Nick Pivetta N. Pivetta	11	3	2	1	.667	3	5.40	0	0	0	15.0	15	9	9	2	6	1	0	0	67	1	6.60	3.60	1.83	1.20	16.4	9.0	1.40	.277	5.40	9.00
17	Michael Lorenzen M. Lorenzen	11	3	0	1	.000	2	0.56	0	0	0	16.0	9	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	60	3	6.19	1.13	5.50	0.00	18.3	3.3	0.69	.200	0.56	5.06
18	Zack Wheeler Z. Wheeler	11	2	1	0	1.000	2	1.50	0	0	0	12.0	6	2	2	1	7	0	0	0	48	0	8.25	5.25	1.57	0.75	22.9	14.6	1.08	.172	1.50	4.50
19	Aroldis Chapman A. Chapman	11	7	2	0	1.000	0	2.57	0	0	3	7.0	6	2	2	1	0	0	5	0	27	0	14.14	0.00		1.29	40.7	0.0	0.86	.333	2.57	7.71
20	Pablo López P. López	10	1	1	0	1.000	1	1.42	0	0	0	6.1	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	25	0	14.21	0.00		0.00	40.0	0.0	0.63	.286	1.42	5.68
21	Ranger Suarez R. Suarez	10	2	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	0	0	8.0	6	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	33	0	11.25	3.38	3.33	0.00	30.3	9.1	1.13	.316	0.00	6.75
22	Luke Weaver L. Weaver	10	3	1	0	1.000	2	3.14	0	0	0	14.1	7	5	5	3	3	1	0	0	52	0	6.28	1.88	3.33	1.88	19.2	5.8	0.70	.114	3.14	4.40
23	Tanner Bibee T. Bibee	9	1	0	0		1	1.50	0	0	0	6.0	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0	22	0	13.50	3.00	4.50	1.50	40.9	9.1	0.50	.000	1.50	1.50
24	Hunter Brown H. Brown	9	1	1	0	1.000	1	0.00	0	0	0	5.2	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	23	0	14.29	6.35	2.25	0.00	39.1	17.4	1.06	.200	0.00	3.18
25	Kyle Harrison K. Harrison	9	2	0	0		1	3.00	0	0	0	6.0	4	2	2	1	7	0	1	1	29	0	13.50	10.50	1.29	1.50	31.0	24.1	1.83	.250	3.00	6.00

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