World Series Career Pitching Records by Baseball Almanac

World Series Career Pitching Records

World series career records of every type appear in the following chart. Find out which players truly perform well in October and who holds every major World Series record.

"The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid and if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid." - Don Drysdale

World Series Record Book World Series Career Pitching Records
Record	Name(s)	Data
Bases on Balls	Whitey Ford	34
Complete Games	Christy Mathewson	10
Complete Games (In Consecutive Order)	Bob Gibson	8
Games Pitched In	Mariano Rivera^(#1)	24
Games Pitched In	Whitey Ford^(#2)	22
Games Relieved	Mariano Rivera^(#1)	24
	Mike Stanton^(#2)	20
	Rollie Fingers^(#3)	16
	Jeff Nelson^(#3)	16
Games Started	Whitey Ford	22
Games Started (Opening Game of Series)	Whitey Ford	8
Hit Batters	Bill Donovan	4
Hit Batters	Eddie Plank	4
Home Runs Allowed	Catfish Hunter	9
Innings Pitched	Whitey Ford	146.0
Losses	Whitey Ford	8
Losses (By A Winless Pitcher)	Charlie Leibrandt	4
	Don Newcombe
	Bill Sherdel
	Ed Summers
Losses (In Consecutive Order)	Joe Bush	5
Saves	Mariano Rivera	11
Shutouts	Christy Mathewson	4
Strikeouts	Whitey Ford	94
Wild Pitches	Hal Schumacher	5
Wins	Whitey Ford	10
Wins (By An Undefeated Pitcher)	Lefty Gomez	6
Wins (In Consecutive Order)	Bob Gibson	7
Wins (Opening Game of Series)	Red Ruffing	5
Record	Name(s)	Data

Did you know that Eddie Plank of the Philadelphia Athletics had a record three shutouts (two during the 1905 World Series & one during the 1914 World Series) thrown against him while he was on the losing team during a complete game?

Whitey Ford holds another amazing World Series record: thirty-three consecutive scoreless innings in Series play!

Don Larsen, thanks to his perfect game on October 8, 1956, holds the career World Series record for consecutive hitless innings with eleven.

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