Innings Pitched Records by Baseball Almanac

Innings Pitched Records & Scoreless Innings Pitched Records

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for innings pitched and consecutive scoreless innings pitched records — including career innings pitched marks, single season innings pitched plateaus, game related innings pitched totals and multiple consecutive scoreless innings pitched records.

"I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game." - Hall of Famer Bob Feller (American League Leader for Most Seasons Leading the League in Innings Pitched)

Innings Pitched Records Career Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Career (Top 100)	AL	Walter Johnson	Washington	5,914.1	5,914.1
	NL	Warren Spahn	Boston	3,162.0	5,243.2
			Milwaukee	1,884.0
			New York	126.0
			San Francisco	71.2
	ML	Cy Young	Cleveland [NL]	3,433.0	7,356.0
			St. Louis	690.2
			Boston	2,728.1
			Cleveland [AL]	504.0
Most By A Relief Pitcher	AL	Sparky Lyle	Boston	331.2	1,265.0
			New York	745.2
			Texas	175.2
			Chicago	12.0
	NL	Kent Tekulve	Pittsburgh	1,017.0	1,436.1
			Philadelphia	367.1
			Cincinnati	52.0
Innings Pitched Records Single Season Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Season (Top 100)	AL	Ed Walsh	Chicago	464.0	1908
	NL	Will White	Cincinnati	680.0	1879
Most In A Season By A Rookie	AL	Scott Perry	Philadelphia	332.1	1918
	NL	Jim Devlin	Louisville	622.0	1876
Most Seasons Leading The League (Yearly Leaders)	AL	Bob Feller	Cleveland	5	1939
			Cleveland		1940
			Cleveland		1941
			Cleveland		1946
			Cleveland		1947
		Walter Johnson	Washington		1910
			Washington		1913
			Washington		1914
			Washington		1915
			Washington		1916
	NL	Grover Alexander	Philadelphia	7	1911
			Philadelphia		1912
			Philadelphia		1914
			Philadelphia		1915
			Philadelphia		1916
			Philadelphia		1917
			Chicago		1920
Innings Pitched Records Game Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Single Game	AL	Jack Coombs	Philadelphia	24	09-01-1906
		Joe Harris	Boston	24	09-01-1906
	NL	Leon Cadore	Brooklyn	26	05-01-1920
		Joe Oeschger	Boston	26	05-01-1920
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Consecutive Scoreless Innings Pitched Records Most Consecutive Scoreless Innings Marks
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Season (40+ Scoreless IP) (Bold AL & NL Record)	NL	Orel Hershiser	Los Angeles	59.0	08-30-1988
					09-28-1988
	NL	Don Drysdale	Los Angeles	58.0	05-14-1968
					06-08-1968
	AL	Walter Johnson	Washington	55.2	04-10-1913
					05-14-1913
	AL	Jack Coombs	Philadelphia	53.0	09-05-1910
					09-25-1910
	NL	Bob Gibson	St. Louis	47.0	06-02-1968
					06-26-1968
	NL	Carl Hubbell	New York	45.1	07-13-1933
					08-01-1933
	AL	Cy Young	Boston	45.0	04-25-1904
					05-17-1904
	AL	Doc White	Chicago	45.0	09-12-1904
					09-30-1904
	NL	Sal Maglie	New York	45.0	08-16-1950
					09-03-1950
	NL	Ed Reulbach	Chicago	44.0	09-17-1908
					10-03-1908
	AL	Rube Waddell	Philadelphia	43.2	08-22-1905
					09-05-1905
	AL	Rube Foster	Boston	42.0	05-01-1914
					05-26-1914
	NL	Brandon Webb	Arizona	42.0	07-20-2007
					08-17-2007
	NL	Jack Chesbro	Pittsburgh	41.0	06-26-1902
					07-16-1902
	NL	Grover Alexander	Philadelphia	41.0	09-07-1911
					09-24-1911
	NL	Art Nehf	Boston	41.0	09-13-1917
					10-04-1917
	AL	Ted Lyons	Chicago	41.0	08-09-1926
					08-26-1926
	AL	Luis Tiant	Cleveland	41.0	04-28-1968
					05-17-1968
	AL	Walter Johnson	Washington	40.0	05-07-1918
					05-26-1918
	NL	Gaylord Perry	San Francisco	40.0	08-28-1967
					09-10-1967
	AL	Luis Tiant	Boston	40.0	08-19-1972
					09-08-1972
Most In A Season (Start of Career)	AL	Brad Ziegler	Oakland	39.0	05-31-2008
					08-14-2008
	NL	George McQuinn	Philadelphia	25.0	05-08-1907
					09-29-1907
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Innings Pitched Records

Did you know that in 1906 Jack Taylor was taken out of a game, but not before he had pitched a National League record one-thousand seven-hundred twenty-seven innings without being relieved by any pitcher from the bullpen?

Mike Marshall set the Major League record for most innings pitched during a season (1974) by a relief pitcher when he appeared in two-hundred eight innings with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Year-by-year innings pitched leaders are also on Baseball Almanac and the pitcher who has led either league with the fewest amount of innings pitched is David Wells of the Toronto Blue Jays who had two-hundred thirty-one complete innings pitched during the 1999 season (the National League leader is Livan Hernandez who piched in two-hundred thirty-three innings for the Montreal Expos in 2003).

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