October 2nd, 2012
On this day in 2012, in his last appearance of the season, Mets' 20-game winner R.A Dickey whiffs eight Miami batters to end the campaign with 230 strike outs, the most in the National League. The 37 year-old knuckleballer did not foresee the possibility of this occurrence when he wrote the opening lines of Wherever I Wind Up, his autobiography released in March, sharing with his readers, "I will never be a Hall of Famer and will never lead the league in strikeouts," unaware that he would accomplish the second of these feats in the near future.