The Yankees record for strikeouts in one game is 18 by Ron Guidry, who remains a lifelong Yankees fan and still watches most nights from his home in Louisiana. However, he was one of the last to know that Michael Pineda made a serious run at his record Sunday when he struck out 16 Orioles.
“I just heard. I was busy today with Mother’s Day,” Guidry said when I reached out to him Sunday night. “I saw the score every once in a while, but other than that I didn’t know anything about it.”
Pineda didn’t get a chance to go for Louisiana Lightning’s record because his pitch count reached 111 after seven innings.