What is "strikeouts"

Usage examples of "strikeouts".

To reduce his strikeouts, he shortened his swing, and traded the possibility of hitting a home run for a greater likelihood of simply putting the ball in play.

He threw a shutout with ten strikeouts, and went two for four at the plate.

He then asked the question: if his reductive approach of looking at just walks, strikeouts, and homers identified the five best pitchers in baseball, how important could all the other stuff be?

Again, he showed his athletic prowess by throwing strikeouts that registered seventy-one miles an hour.

A lower earned run average, fewer home runs allowed, more strikeouts, and fewer walks per nine innings.

Thirty walks and only seventeen strikeouts in one hundred ninety-four at bats.

The ratio of his walks to his strikeouts was among the highest in the league.

The number of walks and home runs he gave up, and the number of strikeouts he recorded were, if not predictable, at least understandable.

The right numbers were walks, home runs, and strikeouts plus a few others.

He thought there was one big thing, in addition to walks, strikeouts, and home runs, that a pitcher could control: extra base hits.

In the five-game series, Scott Hatteberg went 7-14 with three walks, no strikeouts, a home run, and a pair of doubles.

I pitched forty-seven complete games, won twenty-eight of them, led the league in most strikeouts, least hits, most innings pitched, and everything.