Exactly 100 years ago Saturday, Washington Senators right-hander Walter Johnson struck out Cleveland Indians catcher Steve O’Neill to become the founding member of baseball’s 3,000 strikeout club.
“A scarcity of base hits, caused by the presence of the veteran Walter Johnson, was not enough to crush the White Sox today,” The Post reported after that game, making no mention of any strikeout milestone. “Held to five blows by the old speed king, they made all of them count in the run getting, for a 4 to 2 victory over the Nats.”
Cassidy Lent, the library director at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, said the Hall of Fame usesas its statistical database and notes potential discrepancies in the record where applicable.
No matter whether Johnson recorded his 3,000th strikeout on July 22, 1923, or 14 days earlier, he stood alone for more than half a century., Gaylord Perry joined the club in 1978. Ryan reached 3,000 in 1980. Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton recorded their 3,000th strikeouts 11 days apart in April 1981, and Bert Blyleven followed Ferguson Jenkins, Don Sutton and Phil Niekro as the 10th member in 1986.
Randy Johnson reached 3,000 strikeouts in the fewest games and innings of any pitcher, followed by Max Scherzer . Niekro, a knuckleballer who averaged more than seven strikeouts per nine innings only one season in hisKansas City Royals right-hander Zack Greinke and Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw, who have
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