{"id":22811,"date":"2025-06-15T07:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22811"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:26:26","slug":"interleague-pitching-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/interleague-pitching-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Interleague Pitching Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday, we looked at the offensive leaders in interleague games I\u2019ve attended since 1997.\u00a0 Today, let\u2019s take a look at the defensive side of the ball and the active pitching leaders in the 199 games I’ve attended featuring teams from opposite leagues.<\/p>\n

Wins<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Losses<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mark Buehrle<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Zambrano<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Sale<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Lester<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jake Peavy<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

ERA (> 10 IP)<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Kyle Hendricks<\/span><\/td>\n6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Garland<\/span><\/td>\n5<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jose Contreras<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 tied with<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

ERA (> 30 IP)<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Reynaldo Lopez<\/span><\/td>\n0.55<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Linebrink<\/span><\/td>\n0.87<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matt Thornton<\/span><\/td>\n0.90<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kip Wells<\/span><\/td>\n1.13<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Travis Wood<\/span><\/td>\n1.20<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Strikeouts<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Chris Sale<\/span><\/td>\n1.24<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jake Peavy<\/span><\/td>\n1.56<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Lieber<\/span><\/td>\n2.70<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Shields<\/span><\/td>\n2.80<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jon Lester<\/span><\/td>\n2.82<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Appearances<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Carlos Zambrano<\/span><\/td>\n62<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Sale<\/span><\/td>\n59<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Buehrle<\/span><\/td>\n54<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lucas Giolito<\/span><\/td>\n52<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dylan Cease<\/span><\/td>\n48<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Saves<\/p>\n

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Aaron Bummer<\/span><\/td>\n21<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bobby Jenks<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bob Howry<\/span><\/td>\n20<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matt Thornton<\/span><\/td>\n18<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Marmol<\/span><\/td>\n17<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we looked at the offensive leaders in interleague games I\u2019ve attended since 1997.\u00a0 Today, let\u2019s take a look at the defensive side of the ball and the active pitching leaders in the 199 games I’ve attended featuring teams from opposite leagues. Wins Name Total Mark Buehrle 6 Carlos Zambrano 5 Chris Sale 5 Jon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7626,2185,1509,162,147,616,574,7512,145,5652,886,2398,5781,2483,2286,6981,9660,7032,86,164,8035,165,7619],"class_list":["post-22811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-aaron-bummer","tag-addison-reed","tag-bob-howry","tag-bobby-jenks","tag-carlos-marmol","tag-carlos-zambrano","tag-chris-sale","tag-dylan-cease","tag-jake-peavy","tag-james-shields","tag-jon-garland","tag-jon-lester","tag-jon-lieber","tag-jose-contreras","tag-kip-wells","tag-kyle-hendricks","tag-liam-hendriks","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-matt-thornton","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-scott-linebrink","tag-travis-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22884,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22811\/revisions\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Name<\/span><\/th>\nTotal<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Bobby Jenks<\/span><\/td>\n9<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bob Howry<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liam Hendriks<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Addison Reed<\/span><\/td>\n4<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5 tied with<\/span><\/td>\n3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n