Talk:List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders

Help requested
I created this page two days ago and it is coming a long very well but I am at a point where I need some help to fill out the rest of the info. I created this page because i wanted to know all of this stuff and was shocked not to see a page for it so I created it but i need some help to get more info thank you. -The Obi — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Obi (talk • contribs)

Very major oversight
Considering it's generally considered "three outs an inning", the way four strikeouts becomes possible is sorely lacking from this article. You'll confuse people with a passing knowledge of baseball and make those who know nothing say "what's so special about four batters"? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:22, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, how a "struck-out" batter can reach base. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm going to be working on that very soon. —Bloom6132 (talk) 10:28, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

"accomplished"
The text currently talks about pitchers who have "accomplished the feat". But if the failure of a strikeout to be an actual out was because of a wild pitch, I'm not sure one would normally consider it an accomplishment. (If it's scored as a passed ball, meaning it's the catcher's fault rather than the pitcher's, that's different, a little &mdash; but sometimes it's a little subjective deciding whose fault it actually was.)

On a related note, it might be nice to see in the table whether the occurrence was due to a strikeout-wild pitch or a strikeout-passed ball. If that information is available. --Trovatore (talk) 03:30, 25 June 2013 (UTC)


 * It's not the failure of the strikeout that's the key; it's actually the 4 strikeouts the pitcher garners. Usually, a 10+ strikeout game by a pitcher is considered above average.  Getting 40% of those strikeouts in just one inning is the milestone that's achieved, so that is indeed quite an accomplishment.  And, if I'm not mistaken, 4 strikeout innings aren't limited to just strike 3 wild pitches or passed balls.  I think at least one of these games had an error on the catcher's part. —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:33, 26 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I suppose that it could be considered something heroic on the pitcher's part. "Dang! I fan three guys and we're still not out of the inning! Guess I'll have to strike out another one!" It would be good to footnote the cases where an error or a wild pitch was involved. I'll bet that most cases were scored as passed balls, although all of the pre-1960 cases were probably scored errors (scoring rule was changed).WHPratt (talk) 14:37, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Asterism
I've tried an asterism to avoid using the dagger (traditionally indicates death). Revert if there's any display issues. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Recent edits
Edits like these completely reduce the quality of the list. It goes against everything (i.e. format, prose style, etc.) that was approved in the FLC process not too long ago. Please keep that in mind. —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:38, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

The lede
Really needs to be fixed. I was gonna update the numbers after the instance tonight, but they're already way off. I don't have the time to rebuild them from scratch, but someone needs to. 173.160.130.14 (talk) 05:21, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Least amount of pitches
Has anyone ever accomplished the feat in 12 pitches? If not, what is the record for fewest pitches to 4 strikeouts?FUSabb (talk) 01:21, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

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