ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014\u00a0Jacob deGrom reached 2,000 career strikeouts in the second-fewest games and innings pitched in major-league history Thursday night when the Texas Rangers right-hander fanned the first two batters among his 10 K\u2019s in a 2-0 win over the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n
DeGrom struck out Daylen Lile and Abimelec Ortiz, both of whom chased sliders below the zone. He received a standing ovation and acknowledged the applause by tapping his cap over his heart.<\/p>\n
The two-time Cy Young Award winner said the achievement was \u201ccool\u201d but added he likely won\u2019t reflect on it or other personal milestones until he\u2019s done pitching.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe whenever my career is over I\u2019ll look at that kind of stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cBut even when the season\u2019s over, I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019ve got to figure out a way to get outs the following year.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
DeGrom (9-8, 3.77 ERA) allowed a second-inning single and a fifth-inning walk, both to Brady House, in six innings while throwing 94 pitches. He struck out the side in the fourth, and his 10 strikeouts matched a season best.<\/p>\n
DeGrom was pulled from his previous start Aug. 13 after only two innings because of triceps fatigue. Manager Skip Schumaker was among those who feared deGrom would go on the injured list. Instead, his start against the Nationals was pushed back one day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was vintage deGrom,\u201d Schumaker said.<\/p>\n
DeGrom has 2,008 strikeouts in 1,666 1\/3 innings over 272 starts since his big-league debut in 2014 with the New York Mets. He has 157 strikeouts in 126 2\/3 innings this season.<\/p>\n
Hall of Famer Randy Johnson got his 2,000th strikeout in his 262nd appearance for the fewest games. Chris Sale holds the record for fewest innings at 1,626.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old deGrom is the ninth active player and 95th in history to reach the milestone. He is the fourth this season, following Kevin Gausman, Sonny Gray and Aaron Nola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014\u00a0Jacob deGrom reached 2,000 career strikeouts in the second-fewest games and innings pitched in major-league history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[143966,41883,150,152,151,105337,53311,143967,143619,429],"class_list":["post-412567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-000-strikeouts","tag-41883","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-chris-sale","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-mlb-milestone","tag-randy-johnson","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412567","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=412567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}