Dodgers 27 Outs Away From Tying Franchise History

Clayton Kershaw on Saturday against Detroit broke the Dodgers' all-time strikeout record. passing Don Sutton's franchise mark that has stood for over 42 years.

Sutton held the belt longer than anyone in franchise history, just at that place are but a very small-scale number of pitchers who take held the club'due south career strikeout record.

Dodgers best strikeout leaders

Bullpen	Years pitched	Passing appointment	Batter	Passing number	Final number
Pitcher	Years pitched	Passing date	Batter	Passing number	Final number
Sam Kimber	1884	unknown (1884)	unknown	1?	122
Adonis Terry	1884-1891	unknown (1884)	unknown	unknown	1,200
Nap Rucker	1907-1916	9/29/1915	Fred Herbert (Giants P)	1,201	1,217
Dazzy Vance	1922-32, 1935	6/23/1928	Eddie Brown (Braves CF)	one,218	1,918
Sandy Koufax	1955-1966	7/24/1965	Ted Savage (Cardinals RF)	one,919	2,396
Don Drysdale	1956-1969	6/22/1968	Cleon Jones (Mets RF)	2,397	2,486
Don Sutton	1966-fourscore, 1988	8/v/1979	Greg Johnston (Giants RF)	ii,487	2,696
Clayton Kershaw	2008-present	4/30/2022	Spencer Torkelson (Tigers 1B)	2,697	TBD

Sam Kimber started the outset game in Brooklyn franchise history, on May 1, 1984. It's unknown when his offset strikeout came.

I'grand not entirely certain of the exact timeline of the Dodgers' commencement season, in 1884 in the American Clan. Just the club, then named the Brooklyn Atlantics, merely used v total pitchers all flavor. Nineteen-year-one-time Adonis Terry started over half the games, pitched over half the innings, and his 230 strikeouts that flavor accounted for nearly 61 percent of the squad's full (378).

Three of those pitchers — Terry, Sam Kimber, Jack Corcoran — appeared Brooklyn'southward get-go game that year on May 1, all making their major league debut that day, per Retrosheet. Terry played some games in the outfield that season. Corcoran was more often than not a catcher, shortstop, second baseman, and outfielder, and merely pitched once. Kimber, however, only pitched, and since his 41 games were all pitching, and since he completed all 41 starts, he was very clearly the only pitcher for Brooklyn'southward beginning game every bit a franchise.

Kimber finished that season with 122 strikeouts, a distant second to Terry. It'south unknown exactly when those strikeouts came since game logs are unavailable, but there's a good take chances he was the first Brooklyn pitcher to record a strikeout. That was Kimber's merely season in Brooklyn, and that October 4 pitched a 10-inning no-hitter that ended in a necktie, with Corcoran catching him.

At some point in that first flavour of 1884, Terry became the Dodgers career strikeout leader, and in his eight years with Brooklyn – including the club'southward move to the National League in 1890 – the correct-hander struck out 1,200 batters.

Terry's fourth dimension atop the social club strikeout list lasted until 1915, when ninth-year left-hander Nap Rucker finally passed him. Rucker got the record strikeout at the Polo Grounds confronting the New York Giants on September 29, a little more than 7 months afterward Terry died of pneumonia.

Rucker didn't pitch much afterward breaking the strikeout marking, and ended his 10-year career with 1,217 strikeouts, all with the Dodgers.

Dazzy Vance came to the Dodgers at historic period 31, and led the National League in strikeouts in each of his showtime vii seasons in Brooklyn, including leading the majors six times. In 1924, Vance won the pitching triple crown with 28 wins, a 2.16 ERA, and a career-all-time 262 strikeouts, winning the NL MVP.

The last year Vance led the league in strikeouts was 1928, and midway through that season he bankrupt Rucker's career mark. Against the Braves in Boston on June 23, Vance struck out centerfielder Eddie Brown in the 2nd inning to set a new franchise record.

Dazzy Vance led the National League in strikeouts in each of his showtime seven seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1922-1928). He held the franchise all-fourth dimension strikeout record for 37 years.

Vance'due south Dodgers record stood for 37 years until Sandy Koufax broke it against the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium on July 24, 1965. Koufax struck out Ted Fell for the second out of the ninth inning for his 1,919th strikeout. Koufax left the game tied after nine innings, and St. Louis won in the 10th.

Koufax allowed 2 runs in the game, the first of which came off a fifth-inning dwelling run from Bob Uecker. It was the only career dwelling run against Koufax for the catcher, who striking .200/.293/.287 in his six years in the majors, long before condign a Hall of Fame announcer. Uecker striking fourteen career home runs, and three were off Hall of Fame pitchers — Koufax, Gaylord Perry, and Ferguson Jenkins.

"I apologize to Sandy Koufax to this day," Uecker joked to Bob Costas in 2020, for Bally Sports Wisconsin. "I always idea that might go on him out of the Hall of Fame."

Koufax was in the middle of his best strikeout flavour. Entering 1965, Koufax already had the two highest strikeout years in the modern era of National League history – 269 in 1961, and 306 in 1963 – but in this season he fanned 382 batters, a major league record that has only been topped once since.

Simply two weeks later on Don Drysdale'southward record streak of 58 consecutive scoreless innings was snapped, the right-hander was working on another shutout of his ain at Shea Stadium until Mets leftfielder Art Shamsky homered in the sixth. Merely three innings before, Drysdale caught Cleon Jones looking for his ii,397th career strikeout, passing his former teammate for the club loftier mark.

"The way Don Drysdale keeps ripping them out, the pitching pages in the Dodgers tape volume must be perforated," wrote George Lederer in the Long Beach Independent.

Drysdale at this point held Dodgers career records in games pitched, starts, innings, wins, strikeouts, and shutouts. The win over the Mets was his 199th career victory, but the final vii outs were secured by the bullpen who would break all of those records.

Don Sutton passed Drysdale in career strikeouts in a dwelling house win over the Giants on August five, 1979.

"I think the chase was more than fun than the record," Sutton told United Press International. "Having the other guys out in front of me gave me the incentive. Had it been someone other than Drysdale, who I played with, it wouldn't have meant so much. I thought about the tape until the fourth strikeout, and so I figured the next one would come.

"The shutout record is the i that really eluded me and I actually wanted that one today."

Sutton was sitting on 49 career shutouts during this first, tied with Drysdale atop the Dodgers record book. Sutton hadn't pitched a shutout all season but was leading 8-0 in the eighth inning when kickoff baseman Mike Ivie homered over the centerfield wall at Dodger Stadium. Sutton struck out the next concoction, rightfielder Greg Johnston, to laissez passer Drysdale in strikeouts.

But Sutton didn't accept to wait long for the shutout record. He blanked the Giants 5 days later at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Sutton'due south 52 shutouts with the Dodgers remain the franchise record.

Sutton never led the league in strikeouts, but neither did Kimber, Terry, nor Rucker. Vance led the NL in strikeouts seven times, Koufax did four times, Drysdale and Kershaw three times each. None of Kimber, Terry or Rucker made the Hall of Fame, but the concluding four pitchers to concur the Dodgers all-fourth dimension strikeout tape did. One solar day Kershaw will join them. It'south skilful company to be in.

Source: https://www.truebluela.com/2022/4/24/23036480/dodgers-strikeout-record-clayton-kershaw-don-sutton-sandy-koufax-don-drysdale

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