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Toronto Blue Jays' Kevin Gausman Leading Baseball in This Impressive Stat

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Kevin Gausman went 6.2 innings and struck out 11 on Thursday in a win over the Milwaukee Brewers. He now leads the majors in double-digit strikeout games.

Brady Farkas

Toronto Blue Jays' Kevin Gausman Leading Baseball in This Impressive Stat
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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Kevin Gausman just keeps rolling along.

The righty went 6.2 innings on Thursday in a 3-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. He allowed no runs, five hits and two walks. He struck out 11 and lowered his ERA to 2.76.

Per the Blue Jays account on Twitter:

FUN FACT: 

Gaus leads @MLB with FIVE starts of double-digit strikeouts 

He’s your AL leader in Ks

Gausman is second in all of baseball in strikeouts, behind only Spencer Strider of the Braves, who has 106. Gausman has 100, which is more than other American League starters like Shohei Ohtani (90), Pablo Lopez (86) and Shane McClanahan (82).

He recorded double-digit strikeout games against the Brewers (Thursday), Tigers, Yankees, Mariners and Yankees again.

For the season, Gausman is 4-3 with the 2.76 ERA. He's struck out the 100 batters in just 75.0 innings.

The 32-year-old is in his second year as a member of the Blue Jays and was a major reason of why Toronto made the playoffs in the 2022 season. He made his major league debut in 2013 with the Orioles and spent parts of six seasons in Baltimore. He then pitched in Atlanta for parts of two years, Cincinnati for part of one, San Francisco for two years and now Toronto. He made the All-Star team in 2021 with the Giants.

He won a career-high 14 games that season and has four different seasons with double-digit wins.

Toronto is traveling to New York on Friday for a series with the New York Mets.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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