pitching nine innigs?

Question

does anyone know how many baseball pitchers that have pitched the whole nine innings?

Answer 1

I assume you are only talking about MLB pitchers? There have been many, many pitchers to do this. Nowadays, there are a lot less, since there are now specialty pitchers that the managers can use for 1 or 2 innings or even 1 or 2 batters.

Back in the day, pitchers were almost expected to go 9 innings. I noticed one Yankee pitcher (Jack Chesbro) had 48 complete games in 1904. So far this season, there have been 11 in the AL, 11 in the NL (with Halladay having 2).

Answer 2

The total is well over 10,000 since the total for just the top 20 records for complete games is 9680 with Cy Young leading them all at 749 complete games.

If you just meant how many pitchers have ever accomplished it (regardless of doing it twice or three times or three hundred times) then obviously the number is lower. I would guess though that the majority of pitchers have at least 1 complete game to their credit although this will probably change the more pitch counts are used and pitchers stick to the relatively recent development of trying to strike the batter out as opposed to getting them to hit into an out. Most early pitchers never had to worry about pitch counts because they weren't throwing that many pitches.

Edit: The guy below that asked how the game could end on a 3 run home run and be scored 1-0... it was the bottom of the inning and only the first run is counted before the game ends.

Answer 3

Far, far, far too numerous to mention.

Then, of course, there's the fact that some games take more than nine innings, and yes, a handful of pitchers even today have pitched a complete game of 9+ innings.

Look at the stats of any pitcher, ANY pitcher, and check the CG column (Complete Game) and the SHO (shut out) column. Even at that, if a pitchers throws every pitch for his team but loses a road game, and the home team didn't bat in the 9th, he's still considered to have pitched a complete game (for the purposes of that column) even though he pitched just 8 innings. He still threw every pitch of the game for his team, and that's the meaning of a complete game.

Answer 4

Thousands Up till about 20 years ago almost all the pitchers wnet nine innings this pitch count is new..They baby these guys now, You figure with all the steroids going around they should be able to go 15 innings but not the case the new game is about the setup man and closer

Answer 5

Complete games are a rarity now with the pitch limits that everyone puts on pitchers......years back of course this was not the case.....for example Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitched 12 perfect innings before he lost it and the game on a 3 run home run by Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves in the 13th inning.....by the way the winning pitcher was Lou Bourdette(recently passed away)....he went the entire 13 innings.....OH! By the way.....the final score was 1 to 0!!!!...........if you read my entire lead in.....how did it end 1-0?

Answer 6

alot