18-Strikeout Game
There have been 34 18-strikeout games since 1897, measured across 225,734 games, an average of one occurrence every 6,639 games. The most recent was Max Scherzer on 11 May 2016; the first was Rube Foster on 1 September 1904.
At least 18 strikeouts by one pitcher in a game, including postseason games.
34recorded occurrences
1 in 6,639games · 1897+
1904first · Rube Foster
2016-05-11most recent · Max Scherzer
28y 2mlongest drought · 1910-08-04 to 1938-10-02
By decade
Recorded occurrences in each decade within this page’s coverage.
Done it most
Where it happens
34 of 34 occurrences join to a ballpark; the rest are this season, which the corpus has not absorbed yet. Counted by host park, so a road feat is credited to the ground it happened on.
Home clubs
Every occurrence (34 of them)
| Date | Player | # | Game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-11 | 20 | 34 | ↗ | |
| 2015-05-13 | 18 | 33 | ↗ | |
| 2004-05-16 | 18 | 32 | ↗ | |
| 2001-05-08 | 20 | 31 | ↗ | |
| 1998-08-25 | 18 | 30 | ↗ | |
| 1998-05-06 | 20 | 29 | ↗ | |
| 1997-08-08 | 19 | 28 | ↗ | |
| 1997-06-24 | 19 | 27 | ↗ | |
| 1996-09-18 | 20 | 26 | ↗ | |
| 1992-09-27 | 18 | 25 | ↗ | |
| 1991-10-06 | 19 | 24 | ↗ | |
| 1990-06-04 | RMRamon Martinez | 18 | 23 | ↗ |
| 1986-04-29 | 20 | 22 | ↗ | |
| 1980-09-10 | BGBill Gullickson | 18 | 21 | ↗ |
| 1978-06-17 | 18 | 20 | ↗ | |
| 1977-06-08 | 19 | 19 | ↗ | |
| 1976-09-10 | 18 | 18 | ↗ | |
| 1974-08-20 | 19 | 17 | ↗ | |
| 1974-08-12 | 19 | 16 | ↗ | |
| 1974-06-14 | 19 | 15 | ↗ | |
| 1970-04-22 | 19 | 14 | ↗ | |
| 1969-09-15 | 19 | 13 | ↗ | |
| 1968-07-14 | 18 | 12 | ↗ | |
| 1968-07-03 | LTLuis Tiant | 19 | 11 | ↗ |
| 1965-10-02 | CSChris Short | 18 | 10 | ↗ |
| 1965-06-14 | JMJim Maloney | 18 | 9 | ↗ |
| 1962-09-12 | TCTom Cheney | 21 | 8 | ↗ |
| 1962-04-24 | 18 | 7 | ↗ | |
| 1959-08-31 | 18 | 6 | ↗ | |
| 1952-06-14 | 18 | 5 | ↗ | |
| 1938-10-02 | 18 | 4 | ↗ | |
| 1910-08-04 | JCJack Coombs | 18 | 3 | ↗ |
| 1906-09-01 | JCJack Coombs | 18 | 2 | ↗ |
| 1904-09-01 | RFRube Foster | 18 | 1 | ↗ |