The 40-year old struck out 10, giving him 15 career double-digit strikeout games, and walked one.
Today's game-winning homer or spectacular leaping catch can easily become tomorrow's muffed catch or crucial strikeout.
Skeptics point to his unexceptional strikeout rate of 6.7 per nine innings, lowest among the ERA leaders.
Harvey is a strikeout artist, already one of the best ever when going by the raw numbers.
Cubs 1B Anthony Rizzo struck out in the first inning, ending 39 straight plate appearances without a strikeout.
It was the right-hander's fourth career double-digit strikeout game and first since July 20, 2010, with Toronto against Cleveland.
Davis was lifted in a double switch after striking out in the sixth, his second strikeout of the night.
Cano came in 8 for 19 in his career against Masterson, but went 0 for 4 with a strikeout.
Niese gave up eight hits and three walks with a strikeout before leaving with one out in the fifth.
What this means is that Harvey's historic strikeout numbers are, in all, a bit less historic than they seem.
Stewart knew to toss Marshall's first strikeout ball to Girardi for safe keeping.
For most of the time I've been watching baseball, a strikeout rate of 6.9 would have indicated a reasonably hard-throwing starter.
Harvey got a big ovation as he settled in to face the next hitter, then fanned Adam Dunn for his 10th strikeout.
If he can spike his strikeout rate in the next year or two, we might be looking at another Brandon Webb type.
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It seems totally bizarre to say that about a team this bad, a team that will probably set the strikeout record in modern baseball.
People showed up at Safeco Field wearing headbands with the Japanese characters for sanshin (strikeout) and held up signs that said made in japan.
His career 2.21 ERA is unmatched in modern times, and his strikeout, walk, and home-run rates are as good or better than any pitcher, ever.
The stat issues points for postive accomplishments like retiring a batter or recording a strikeout, and deducts points for negatives like walks and hits allowed.
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Her strikeout victims in exhibitions include Albert Pujols and Mike Piazza.
The problem for baseball over the long term is that the strikeout is the one offensive event that hardly ever sets into motion an unpredictable result.
Niese, who had never lost to the Pirates before, gave up eight hits and three walks with a strikeout before leaving with one out in the fifth.
He has averaged a strikeout for every 2.59 batters faced and 82 of the 168 pitches he has thrown have either been swinging strikes or strikes by contact.
At the other end of the spectrum are teams such as the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles, who both made the playoffs last year with high-power, high-strikeout attacks.
Bourdett: Posting a 3-0 record, 1.64 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, and 34:8 strikeout-to-walk split over his last 33 frames, Sanchez has officially taken his game to the next level.
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Zambrano responded with an eight-strikeout gem his last time out.
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Along with Myers, Harvey's strikeout rate at his age puts him in the company of Steve Carlton, Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez, who all went on to have pretty good careers.
If they held over a full season, the Braves' strikeout rate would be the second highest in major-league history and their contact rate would be the lowest by any team since 2003.
Wright appears to have little protection in a strikeout-prone lineup other than first baseman Ike Davis, who recovered from a dreadful start last year to finish with 32 homers and 90 RBIs.
Collins took a chance on putting strikeout-prone Rick Ankiel in the second spot in the order because he was 7 for 16 against Cueto, and Ankiel led off the third with a single.
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