Your favorite "incredible" pitching stat/record in baseball history..?

Christy Mathewson throwing 3 shutouts in the same World Series of 1905 all within 6 days. Its never been done ever since.

1.12! While 33/30 is a great stat it can be very misleading. A pitcher could theoretically accomplish that feat while maintaining a 5 era and having a 12 H/9 because of the just give me 6 mentality prevalent in today's game. Heck as good a season Halladay is having he had a 8.3 H/9 & pitched 54 innings less than Gibson in 68. That's 6 full games!

While we are on misleading stats, Joe D.'s 56 is misleading. No doubt the man is one of the best ever, but mathematically a guy could be a .250 hitter & accomplish that record.

*There are some great stats in the segregated era of baseball, but I give them less weight since they weren't facing the best possible competition.

In 1942, Ted Lyons of the White Sox started 20 games and averaged over 9 innings per start. He completed all 20 games including two extra inning games. He led the league in ERA at 2.10 and finished the season 14-6 after starting 1-3 when his team only scored 2 runs in his first 4 starts. And he did all of this at the age of 41!

He then joined the Marines the next season.

As far as single season accomplishments go, I'd have to say Ned Garver winning 20 games for the 1951 St. Louis Browns, a team which lost 102 games that year. Garver is still the only pitcher to have ever pulled off this feat. And, since he lives within an hour's drive of my house, I dropped in on him one day a few years ago after I had just finished purchasing a book in which one of the chapters was dedicated to him. He cordially invited me in and proceeded to talk my ear off for more than hour. Said his wife had gone to Ft. Wayne to shop and that he had nothing better to do anyway. Got the book autographed while I was there and literally drank in some truly amazing stories from this old timer. So, what are the chances that one of today's players would do that ? I'd say less than zero.

Jim Palmer of the Orioles won 20 or more games 8 times and had over 280 wins

and never not even once in his career did he ever allow a Grand Slam Home Run.

Now that is IMPRESSIVE.No other pitcher with those kind of stats can make that

claim.

Okay, I'm a Phillies fan, but I don't think anyone can argue that he just had one of the most amazing seasons ever.

However for individual accomplishments, Johnny Vander Meer pitched to consecutive no-hitters and Joe McGinnty won both games in a doubleheader three times in one month. Orel Hershiser's 59 straight scoreless innings was impressive too. Eric Gagne's save streak, but they weren't all in one season; so the consecutive single season save record is only 56.

That's all that I can think of now.

In his first full season in 1946, Ewell Blackwell of the Reds threw 194.1 innings, facing over 800 plate appearances by the opposition and only allowed 1 home run. That's in a time that homers weren't exactly an uncommon thing.

Nolan Ryan's single season strike out record. 373, I believe.

Most of the good strikeout pitchers today are lucky to get above 250.

No one will EVER break Johnny Vander Meer's record of 2 perfectos in a row.

edit: My bad, they were no-hitters. I knew that too, I don't know why I said perfect games.

1 perfect game in playoff history: Don Larsen 1956