<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Gooden" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dwight Gooden">Dwight Gooden</a> sets the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baseball">baseball</a> record for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikeout" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Score" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Herb Score">Herb Score</a> with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.