During yesterday's Kansas City Royals at Cleveland Indians Major League game, Indians pitcher Danny Salazar struck out Royals' Norichika Aoki swinging with a 98-mph fastball in the bottom of the 7th inning, his 7th, and last, strikeout of the game. This was the last pitch of a quality outing for Salazar, but he did something much more important than help the Tribe win. With that strikeout, he helped accomplish a historic feat: the 2 millionth strikeout in Major League history!
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| Danny Salazar |
It took until 1976 (beginning in 1876) for 1,000,000 strikeouts to happen, but the pace has picked up since then. You can thank strikeout king, Nolan Ryan, for 5,714 of those Ks. That works out to about one in every 350 of those 2,000,000 belonging to the Ryan Express.
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