Baseball Almanac - Pitcher Error Records

Pitcher Error Records

Baseball Almanac invites you to examine error records for pitchers. Research is complete through completion of the previous season and includes all of the possible error record variations.

"When this big moose (Ed Walsh) had his stuff, he was just unbeatable, that's all." - Ty Cobb

Error Records Pitchers
Most In A Career	AL	Ed Walsh	55
	NL	Hippo Vaughn	64
Most In A Game	AL	Buster Ross	4	05-17-1925
	NL	Ed Doheny	5	08-15-1899
Most In A Season	AL	Jack Chesbro	15	1904
		Rube Waddell		1905
		Ed Walsh		1912
	NL	Jim Whitney	28	1881
Most In An Inning	AL	Tommy John	3	07-27-1988
				4th Inning
		Mike Sirotka		04-09-1999
				5th Inning
	NL	Jaime Navarro	3	08-18-1996
				3rd Inning
		Cy Seymour		05-21-1898
				6th Inning
Most Consecutive Games w/o Errors Career	AL	Dennis Eckersley	470	05-01-1987
				05-04-1995
	NL	Lee Smith	546	07-05-1982
				09-22-1992
Most Consecutive Games w/o Errors Season	AL	Wilbur Wood	88	04-10-1968
				09-29-1968
	NL	Ted Abernathy	84	04-12-1965
				10-03-1965
Most Seasons Leading The League	AL	Nolan Ryan	4
		Allen Sothoron
	NL	Warren Spahn	5
		Hippo Vaughn

On May 1, 1920, Leon Cadore of Brooklyn faced Joe Oeschger of Boston in a record twenty-six inning game where neither pitcher had a single error!

From September 21, 1941, through May 20, 1946, Claude Passeau of Chicago had a record two-hundred seventy-three consecutive chances accepted without having a single error on the mound!

Why no record for fewest errors in a season by the league leader? Because the mark is four in each league and several hundred pitchers are tied!

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