Out of all of the MLB pitchers to have pitched a complete game, what was the least amount of pitches thrown?
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Red Barrett (of the Boston Braves) Fifty-Eight Pitch Complete Game - August 10, 1944 at Crosley Field
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Only once has someone struck out 20 in 9 innings, I think it was Steve Carlton or Roger Clemens. More than a dozen have pitched a perfect game. So I would say 20 strike outs as being more impressive.
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Bob Wickman.  It's rare he pitches the ninth inning without the potential tying or lead run getting on base.
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David Eckstein, on the St. Louis Cardinals is 5' 6 1/2". The shortest ever is Eddie Gaedel at 3'7" who got one plate appearance with the number 1/8 as a pinch-hitter for the St. Louis Browns managed by Bill Veeck in 1951...of course he walked on 4 pitches.
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Any pitcher who substitutes for the starting pitcher. \nThere's usually 11-12 pitchers to a team. 5 are starters and the rest are relievers. You've got the middle relievers for games where the game is out of reach or there's an injury, then set-up men for late inning (7-9 inn's) relief and the closer, who comes in the last inning to shut the other team down if it's close (3-4 run lead) and if he holds them, he gets a save. Sometimes he'll come in if it's tied in the 9th, too. \nRelievers are a huge part of the game today because there's way more good/powerful hitting now and way less good pitching.\nHope that helps.
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Nolan Ryan actually never had a perfect game.  He had 7 no-hitters, but never a perfect game.  Also no pitcher has ever had more than one perfect game.  In fact, there have only been 17 perfect games since 1900.  \n\nThe 17 Pitchers in Chronological Order: \n\nCy Young, Addie Joss, Charlie Robertson, Don Larsen, Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, Catfish Hunter, Len Barker, Mike Witt, Tom Browning, Dennis Martinez, Kenny Rogers, David Wells, David Cone, and Randy Johnson.
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The top three:\n\nRoy Face, 1959 W/L record 18-1, 13 saves\nJohn Hiller 1974   17-14, 13 saves\nBill Campbell 1976  17-5, 20 saves\n\n(Also four 16 game winners, six 15 game winners, twelve 14 game winners, fourteen 13 game winners, twenty four 12 game winners, thirty five 11 game winners, and eighty-six 10 game winners who did not start a game)\n\nSince 1900, there have been 184 instances in which a pitcher has won 10 or more games in a season without starting a single game (does not include 2005 data).
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Has to be Grover (Pete) Alexander's rookie season in 1911.\n\nHe went 28 wins & 13 losses with a 2.57 ERA.
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When Babe Ruth retired with 714 HRs, no one else had even 400.  They said no one will ever break Babe Ruth's HR record.\n\nIn the 1960s, one baseball book stated that Ty Cobb's record of 892 stolen bases "is not likely to be broken" (Lou Brock was then in his rookie season.\n\nAbout 1972 or 73, Baseball Digest ran an article stating that 3,000 strikeouts is the "toughest mark for pitchers"... At that time, only Walter Johnson had reached that plateau, and the article stated that Bob Gibson was the only (then) active player with a shot at 3,000 Ks... Jim Bunning was, at the time, 2nd on the all time list with just over 2,800 Ks...  Turns out that NINE pitchers who were then active later cleared 3,000 Ks... Three other pitchers who had not started their careers at that time also cleared 3,000, those being Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux.\n\nIn the Sept 1972 Baseball Digest, an article stated that Roberto Clemente will perhaps be the last player in history to accumulate 3,000 hits (Clemente was the 11th player to do so)... I can't even count how many guys have done that since then... (EDIT: I just looked it up...there are now TWENTY SIX members of the 3,000 hit club... more than double the amount of members in that club back in 1972).\n\nSo no, Glavine will not be the last 300 game winner... it may or may not become more rare, but it will be done again.  Don't ask by whom...
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Pitchers  B/T  Ht  Wt  DOB   \n  38 Jeremy Bonderman R/R 6-2 220 10/28/82 \n  49 Jason Grilli R/R 6-5 225 11/11/76 \n  46 Mike Maroth L/L 6-0 190 08/17/77 \n  29 Nate Robertson R/L 6-2 225 09/03/77 \n  56 Fernando Rodney R/R 5-11 220 03/18/77 \n  37 Kenny Rogers L/L 6-1 190 11/10/64 \n  44 Bobby Seay L/L 6-2 235 06/20/78 \n  48 Chris Spurling R/R 6-5 240 06/28/77 \n  53 Jordan Tata R/R 6-6 220 09/20/81 \n  35 Justin Verlander R/R 6-5 200 02/20/83 \n  32 Jamie Walker L/L 6-2 185 07/01/71 \n  54 Joel Zumaya R/R 6-3 210 11/09/84 \n  Catchers B/T Ht Wt DOB  \n  7 Ivan Rodriguez R/R 5-9 195 11/30/71 \n  13 Vance Wilson R/R 5-11 215 03/17/73 \n  Infielders B/T Ht Wt DOB  \n  9 Carlos Guillen S/R 6-1 215 09/30/75 \n  20 Omar Infante R/R 6-0 180 12/26/81 \n  15 Brandon Inge R/R 5-11 190 05/19/77 \n  14 Placido Polanco R/R 5-10 195 10/10/75 \n  39 Ramon Santiago S/R 5-11 175 08/31/79 \n  26 Chris Shelton R/R 6-0 215 06/26/80 \n  Outfielders B/T Ht Wt DOB  \n  28 Curtis Granderson L/R 6-1 185 03/16/81 \n  27 Craig Monroe R/R 6-1 205 02/27/77 \n  30 Magglio Ordonez R/R 6-0 215 01/28/74 \n  33 Marcus Thames R/R 6-2 220 03/06/77 \n  Designated Hitters B/T Ht Wt DOB  \n  25 Dmitri Young S/R 6-2 220 10/11/73
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(earned runs)*(9)/(innings pitched)
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A lot of people say Cy Young's career wins but I say his career complete games.  He has 749 complete games.  The active leader is Roger Clemens with 118.  Since 1990 the highest total by any player in a season is 15.  It would take 50 season of 15 complete games to match Cy Young.  It will be a long time before anyone even approaches that record.\n\nAnother record is Johnny Vandermeer's two consecutive no-hitters.  To break the record would take 3 consecutive no-hitters. \n\nBut Cy Young's record will not be broken as long as baseball is played under current conditions.
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Tom Seaver - right handed pitcher\nfor the NY Mets on Wednesday, 4/22/1970 against the San Diego Padres @ Shea Stadium\n\nScore: Padres 1, Mets 2\n\nSeaver pitched a complete game.
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There are 63 \n\n\nCap Anson\nLuke Appling\nEarl Averill\nWade Boggs\nJim Bottomley\nDan Brouthers\nJesse Burkett\nRod Carew\nFred Clarke\nRoberto Clemente\nTy Cobb\nMickey Cochrane\nEddie Collins\nEarle Coombs\nRoger Connors\nKiki Cuyler\nEd Delahanty\nBill Dickey\nJoe DiMaggio\nHugh Duffy\nBuck Ewing\nElmer Flick\nJimmie Foxx\nFrankie Frisch\nLou Gehrig\nCharlie Gehringer\nGoose Goslin\nHank Greenberg\nChick Hafey\nBilly Hamilton\nHarry Heilmann\nRogers Hornsby\nHughie Jennings\nWillie Keeler\nJoe Kelley\nKing Kelly\nChuck Klein\nNap Lajoie\nFreddie Lindstrom\nHeinie Manush\nJoe Medwick\nJohnny Mize\nStan Musial\nJim O'Rourke\nKirby Puckett\nSam Rice\nJackie Robinson\nEdd Roush\nBabe Ruth\nJoe Sewell\nAl Simmons\nGeorge Sisler\nTris Speaker\nBill Terry\nSam Thompson\nPie Traynor\nArky Vaughan\nHonus Wagner\nLloyd Waner\nPaul Waner\nZack Wheat\nTed Williams\nRoss Youngs\n\n\nSorry I am not going through all the pitchers batting averages
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No, not even close. The record for most games lost in a row is 21, by the 1988 Baltimore Orioles at the start of the season, when they went 0-21. The record for most lost games in a season is 120, by the 1962 New York Mets. And if anybody is going to break either one of those records this season it'll be the Kansas City Royals, not your Pirates.
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Cooley got it. Here's the top ten:\n1. 1992 Tom Seaver.........98.84%\n2. 1999 Nolan Ryan.........98.79%\n3. 1936 Ty Cobb............98.23%\n4. 1999 George Brett.......98.19%\n5. 1992 Hank Aaron.........97.83%\n6. 1995 Mike Schmidt.......96.52%\n7. 1989 Johnny Bench.......96.42%\n8. 1994 Steve Carlton......95.61%\n9. 1936 Babe Ruth..........95.13%\n10. 1979 Willie Mays.......94.68%
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Whitey Ford - "The Yankees won 11 pennants in Ford's years with them. He ranks first all-time in WS wins (10), losses (8), games and games started (22), innings pitched, hits, bases on balls, and strikeouts. In the 1960, '61, and '62 Series, he pitched 33 consecutive scorelesss innings, breaking Babe Ruth's WS record of 29-2/3."\n\nI would also vote for (in no particular order): Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Christy Mathewson, and Mariano Riveria.