00:00From Hall of Famers like Walter Johnson to very good compilers like A.J.,
00:0540 pitchers have struck out 2,500 batters in baseball history.
00:10Burnett, Chris Sale, a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, is the fastest person to join that club.
00:15The 2,500 strikeout of Sale's career came when he struck out Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Eduardo Sosa,
00:23swinging with two outs in the sixth inning on Thursday.
00:27He did so in just 2,026 innings, the fewest needed to reach 2,500 strikeouts in the history of baseball.
00:35Sale is second only to Blake Snell on the all-time list of strikeouts per nine innings,
00:40making him a likely candidate for the Hall of Fame.
00:43The native of Lakeland, Florida, was one of the best pitchers of the 2010s.
00:48Between 2012 and 2012,
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