{"id":288189,"date":"2026-05-11T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:13:09","slug":"jacob-degrom-reaches-1900-strikeouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288189\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob deGrom reaches 1,900 strikeouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers right-hander Jacob deGrom earned his 1,900th career strikeout in the first inning in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cubs-rangers-score-08bb906e535e4e15f1de100739c0dd15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday, becoming the second-fastest pitcher to that milestone by games and innings.<\/p>\n<p>Seiya Suzuki struck out swinging on a 91.3 mph slider to end the first inning after Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros swung and missed on a 98.1 mph fastball, and deGrom went on to tie his season high for strikeouts with 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,900th strikeout came in deGrom&#8217;s 256th appearance, all as a starter. Hall of Famer Randy Johnson reached that mark in his 252nd game in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is second on the career strikeout list at 4,875. The left-hander was 33 when he reached 1,900, while deGrom turns 38 next month and has dealt with numerous injuries the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>After the first inning, deGrom was at 1,578 1\/3 for his career. Atlanta left-hander Chris Sale reached the milestone in 2019 at 1,560 1\/3 innings, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Rangers right-hander Jacob deGrom earned his 1,900th career strikeout in the first inning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[555,150,152,151,557,102,116,223,558,154,27],"class_list":["post-288189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-app-sports","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}