Talk:Strikeout

message: I removed his name from the active list of strikeout leaders, as he has announced his retirement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.145.140.220 (talk) 21:46, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Alfonso Soriano

message: Dropped:
:In older times, a batter who struck out three times in a game was given a white hood (as the three strikeouts would be recorded "K K K"), but this died out after the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
This is suspicious for a number of reasons. One in particular is that a baseball scoresheet is in a graph format and there would be many blanks or even filled spaces between the three "K"'s. Even if a player struck out in three consecutive at bats it would not readily scan as "K K K". Another reason is that the team would need to keep a supply of white hoods handy, both at home and on the road, for the sole purpose of teasing its players.
Needs sourcing if this is going to go back in the article. Ellsworth 16:44, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly sounds like an urban legend to me.  --UsaSatsui 07:52, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Three K's

message: Also missing leaders in most strikeouts in a single game.Gidge 22:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing leaders

message: While I was researching some on Nolan Ryan, I found out that he struck out a side in nine innings twice, and did it once in each league, the only pitcher ever to do that.  I was wondering if somebody could compile a list of ALL the Baseball pitchers that have struck out a side in nine pitches. --Kitch 16:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Striking out a side in nine innings 

message: Just glancing at this page, I was wondering if someone could verify that the current leaders in strikeouts per nine innings [since 1900] is still accurate? With all the struggles and injury problems he's had I can't imagine he's still up there.
Mientkiewicz5508 05:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Verified at ESPN.com.  Remember that time on the DL doesn't affect things like "strikeouts per innings", because innings just aren't being played.  This is, however, a reason that stats are often given some minimum threshold (for instance, a pinch-hitter who goes 1-for-1 on the season isn't eligible for the batting title). — Lomn | Talk 13:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kerry Wood?

message: I think there needs to be a clarification on this stat in terms of what qualifies for the list.  There is obviously some sort of minimum number of IP or some other thing that is limiting this list.  It would be nice to know what that qualification is. Cjosefy 21:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  K/9 

message: If there were a runner at third and the batter swung and missed and the ball got completely passed the catcher (either a passed ball of a wild pitch) and the runner were to score from third, I assume the batter would not get an RBI.
I've also seen a two base strike out, when the player swings and missed and runs to third before the catcher gets hold of the ball. Mglovesfun 02:15, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (1) The passed ball is the same as an error with regard to runs batted in. No RBI in this case.  (2) A few times in major history, a team left the field after a third strike in the dirt, and the batter got two or more bases before they caught on.  In one case the batter reached third but was out trying to score. WHPratt (talk) 13:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  RBI strike out 

message: The list of active players in the top 50 is a mess.  It says "as of January 4" but Smoltz's total is accurate as of today.  Except that he is now 17th, not 19th, and that hasn't changed.  Either this needs to be set back to the beginning of the year for everybody, or updated for everybody, or tagged accordingly. Matchups 15:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current records 

message: I've updated the K/9 stats as follows:
#Reduced career stats list to 5 entries.  7 and/or 8 seemed unnecessarily arbitrary
#Updated career stats inclusion criteria to that used at MLB.com (2000 IP career).  Note that this removes an active player.
I've commented further on this stat at Talk:Strikeouts per 9 innings pitched.  While I expect change #1 to be fairly uncontroversial, #2 may not be.  I encourage those who disagree with the change to find another equally-if-not-more reliable standard for inclusion.  Note also that we're already de facto using the MLB standard for single-season K/9 records. — Lomn 15:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strikeouts per 9 IP 

message: Just FYI, the rules book tends to say "before two are out". Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:11, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Less than / Fewer than 

message: ث5غثقفغثقف  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.253.11.223 (talk) 17:44, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Are those hieroglyphics a clue as to where we can find the elusive 5K inning?  Please clarify! WHPratt (talk) 13:16, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You never know about Google Translate, but when I posted the writing, it returned random letters. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I googled [joe niekro 5 strikeouts in one inning], and while a lot of the entries parroted the wikipedia reference, this one has some pretty specific information. It is claimed to have occurred in the first inning of an Astros-Twins exhibition game on April 7, 1976, at the New Orleans Superdome, the day before the season opener. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:30, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Retrosheet verifies that the 1976 season started on Thursday, April 8th: ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Googling [astros twins exhibition game 1976] yields a scorecard from 1976 on eBay, which suggests the game was at the Astrodome rather than the Superdome, although it's possible they played more than one game that spring. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:45, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That google also led to the wikipedia article on the Superdome and to this reference to the 1976 game (from April 6th, a Tuesday, and saying they played on "Monday night", which would have been the 5th). Looks like some scanning of newspapers from that week would be needed to answer the question. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So it was Monday or Tuesday in some dome or other.  I'll see if I can find anything.  (I'm beginning to think that the Arabic squiggle above may translate to "Get a life, you people!") WHPratt (talk) 12:41, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  قثغثقغثغفغقف 

message: I am not sure this is universally true: some pitchers get outs by inducing batters to hit ground balls. If you can get a batter to ground out on the first or second pitch, you can keep your pitch count down and perhaps remain effective longer than a strikeout pitcher, who of necessity must pitch at least three pitches to a batter. Wschart (talk) 05:01, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends on the pitcher and the game situation. It does remind me of what Crash Davis told Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham: "Strikeouts are fascist. Throw ground balls, they're more democratic." ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pitchers want to strike out as many as possible? 

message: I have seen some references on this already, but over the past 10 years, there has been a huge reduction in the stigma of a strikeout as managers and sabermatricians have discovered that a strike out is no worse than any other out that fails to advance a better.  This is notable because it coincides with the rise in power hitting as more batters are willing to risk a strike out to hit a home run.  Will post references as I collect them.
Eric the fever (talk) 02:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  destigmatization of the stikeout 

message: Substituted at 14:24, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Baseball assessment comment

message: Random question. Is there a way to calculate the amount of outs made when striking out by an offensive player (as in the batter)? jlog3000 (talk) 23:23, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strikeouts Made by Batters formula