most strikeouts per game by a pitcher all-time

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	7.65	260	34	15	7	.682	33	2.59	1	1	0	181.0	112	52	62	17	59	11	0	0	712	6	12.93	2.93	4.41	0.85	36.5	8.3	0.94	.260	3.08	62	2.62	63	5.57	31.9
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	1,979	267	103	71	.592	267	2.65	4	2	0	1645.0	1,260	484	521	162	369	25	0	15	6,469	33	10.83	2.02	5.36	0.89	30.6	5.7	0.99	.279	2.85	67	2.74	67	6.89	249.2
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	7.06	2,317	328	156	85	.647	328	3.20	8	5	0	2016.0	1,683	717	767	228	512	62	0	7	8,116	58	10.34	2.29	4.53	1.02	28.5	6.3	1.09	.291	3.42	79	3.18	77	7.51	215.6
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	Paul Skenes P. Skenes	6.89	524	76	30	21	.588	76	2.35	1	0	0	436.0	324	114	127	32	100	19	0	0	1,712	5	10.82	2.06	5.24	0.66	30.6	5.8	0.97	.282	2.62	55	2.50	60	6.69	79.4
18	Nolan McLean N. McLean	6.86	192	28	12	7	.632	28	2.96	0	0	0	161.1	117	53	64	14	57	15	0	0	657	4	10.71	3.18	3.37	0.78	29.2	8.7	1.08	.272	3.57	73	3.19	77	6.53	17.6
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	79	7.31	46.8
20	Shane Bieber S. Bieber	6.85	1,014	148	67	35	.657	146	3.30	5	2	0	907.0	815	333	354	109	207	19	1	1	3,682	35	10.06	2.05	4.90	1.08	27.5	5.6	1.13	.303	3.51	78	3.24	77	8.09	100
21	Hunter Greene H. Greene	6.84	643	94	27	30	.474	94	3.73	2	2	0	512.0	400	212	222	73	184	39	0	0	2,128	22	11.30	3.23	3.49	1.28	30.2	8.6	1.14	.275	3.90	84	3.81	88	7.03	30.3
22	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
23	Dylan Cease D. Cease	6.73	1,386	206	71	63	.530	206	3.77	3	3	0	1119.2	928	469	518	128	475	38	0	9	4,731	58	11.14	3.82	2.92	1.03	29.3	10.0	1.25	.296	4.16	90	3.54	83	7.46	88.9
24	Shohei Ohtani S. Ohtani	6.71	765	114	47	22	.681	114	2.83	1	1	0	614.1	443	193	205	60	208	30	0	2	2,479	52	11.21	3.05	3.68	0.88	30.9	8.4	1.06	.270	3.00	67	3.10	72	6.49	78.6
25	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

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