Top 25 Shutouts in 1988 in the National League

Shutouts : 1988 National League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1988 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Orel Hershiser 8 Los Angeles Dodgers 1

Danny Jackson 6 Cincinnati Reds 2

Tim Leary 6 Los Angeles Dodgers

Bob Ojeda 5 New York Mets 4

Mike Scott 5 Houston Astros

David Cone 4 New York Mets 6

Ron Darling 4 New York Mets

Kelly Downs 3 San Francisco Giants 8

Dwight Gooden 3 New York Mets

Greg Maddux 3 Chicago Cubs

Joe Magrane 3 St. Louis Cardinals

Pete Smith 3 Atlanta Braves

Tom Browning 2 Cincinnati Reds 13

Jim Deshaies 2 Houston Astros

Andy Hawkins 2 San Diego Padres

Bob Knepper 2 Houston Astros

Dennis Martinez 2 Montreal Expos

Pascual Perez 2 Montreal Expos

Jeff Pico 2 Chicago Cubs

Rick Reuschel 2 San Francisco Giants

Don Robinson 2 San Francisco Giants

Rick Sutcliffe 2 Chicago Cubs

Tim Belcher 1 Los Angeles Dodgers 23

Dennis Cook 1 San Francisco Giants

Jose DeLeon 1 St. Louis Cardinals

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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