1992 Event Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout and decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error 1989 Event Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout 1986 Event Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout 1984 Event Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200 1984 Event New York Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 1983 Event Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters 1983 Event Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson 1980 Event Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000 1973 Event Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout) 1964 Event On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330) 1961 Event Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269 1946 Event Bob Feller 348th strikeout of season 1923 Event Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508) 1921 Event Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287
