Major League Baseball has set its season strikeout record for the 12th straight season.
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Willy Adames went down swinging on a pitch from the New York Yankees’ Stephen Tarpley in the fifth inning, marking the 41,208th strikeout of the season, according to ESPN.com, breaking the mark that was set in 2018.
Strikeouts broke 40,000 for the first time in 2017, when there were 40,104.
Before the record run started in 2008, the mark had been 32,404 in 2001. Strikeouts totaled 29,937 in 1996 before reaching the 30,000 for the first time the following year.
MLB also set a record for home runs this season. The league entered Tuesday with 6,550, surpassing the mark of 6,105 set in 2017.