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CREIGHTON MAKES MORE HISTORY, STRIKES OUT 10
DOMINANT GAME AT ECKFORD MAKES HIM FIRST EVER TO STRIKE OUT 10 IN A GAME

BROOKLYN (May 17, 1867) – Jim Creighton added yet another chapter to his already enormous volume of historical achievements on Friday afternoon as he pitched Excelsior BBC to victory at the Manor House Base Ball Grounds:

Creighton was even more bewildering than usual with the ball in this game, allowing just two hits and a single run (earned) while pitching all nine innings. He also did something never seen in base ball. Creighton sat down ten Eckford batters via strikes, making him the first pitcher in the history of the sport to strike out ten or more batsmen in a single outing. Creighton already had the existing record for strikeouts in a single game: nine, which he set on Gameday Two of the 1865 Tucker-Wheaton Cup.

Creighton, who only turned 26 on April 15th, is the king of the pitching record books. He currently holds the following high – or low – marks for pitching performance:

• ERA in a Season (250 IP): 2.24 in 1865
• Strikeouts in a Game: 10 on May 17th, 1867 vs Eckford
• Strikeouts in a Season: 146 in 1866
• Strikeouts in a Career: 616
• BB/9 in a Season (250 IP): 0.23 in 1865
• BB/9 for a Career (1,000 IP): 0.96
• SO/9 in a Season (250 IP): 4.43 in 1866
• SO/9 for a Career (1,000 IP): 2.65
• K/BB in a Season (250 IP): 16.63 in 1865
• Walks + Hits / IP in a Career (1,000 IP): 1.16
• Opponents’ AVG in a Career (1,000 IP): .259
• Opponents’ OBP in a Career (1,000 IP): .284
• Opponents’ OPS in a Career (1,000 IP): .624
• Pitching WAR in a Season (250 IP): 9.13 in 1865
• RA/9 WAR in a Season (250 IP): 12.5 in 1863

When it comes to batting, Creighton also leads all pitchers in career Batting Average, On-Base + Slugging, Win Probability Added, and Wins Above Replacement.

As Creighton’s career continues, he is certain to stake his claim to more pitching records. At the very least, the career rec-ords for WAR & RA/9 WAR, which currently belong to Bernard Schmidt & John McGowan, will be his before long. He has won 20+ games in each of the past six seasons, so at the rate Creighton wins it seems a good bet that he will retire as the NBBO’s career leader in victories.

It seems impossible for Jim Creighton to keep improving his almost mythical pitching dominance, yet he does.