Editing Shutout (section)

==Baseball==
[[File:Nolan Ryan Tiger Stadium 1990 CROP.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.8|[[Nolan Ryan]] recorded 61 shutouts during his career as a major-league pitcher.]]
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In [[Major League Baseball]], a shutout (denoted statistically as '''ShO''' or '''SHO'''<ref>{{cite web|last=MLB.com|author-link=MLB.com|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/baseball_basics/abbreviations.jsp|year=2010|title=Baseball Basics: Abbreviations|access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref>) refers to the act by which a single [[pitcher]] pitches a [[complete game]] and does not allow the opposing team to score a [[Run (baseball)|run]].  If two or more pitchers combine to complete this act, no pitcher will be awarded a shutout, although the team itself can be said to have "shut out" the opposing team. The only exception to this is when a pitcher enters a game before the opposing team scores a run or makes an out and then completes the game without allowing a run to score. That pitcher is then awarded a shutout, although not a complete game.

The all-time career leader in shutouts is [[Walter Johnson]], who pitched for the [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]] from 1907 to 1927.  He accumulated 110 shutouts,<ref>{{cite web|last=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnswa01.shtml|year=2010|title=Walter Johnson at Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref> which is 20 more than second placed [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alexape01.shtml|year=2010|title=Pete Alexander at Baseball-Reference.com|access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref>  The most shutouts recorded in one season was 16, which was a feat accomplished by both Grover Alexander (1916) and [[George Bradley]] (1876).<ref>{{cite web|last=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SHO_leagues.shtml|year=2010|title=Yearly League Leaders & Records for Shutouts|access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref>  These records are considered among the most secure records in baseball, as pitchers today rarely earn more than one or two shutouts per season with a heavy emphasis on [[pitch count]] and [[relief pitcher|relief pitching]].  Complete games themselves have also become rare among [[starting pitcher]]s.  As of 2021, the current active leader in shutouts is [[Clayton Kershaw]] of the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]], whose 15 shutouts ties him for 463rd all time. Only four pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 [[live-ball era]] threw as many as 60 career shutouts, with [[Warren Spahn]] leading those pitchers with 63.<ref name=BaseballRefSHO>{{cite web|last=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SHO_career.shtml|year=2013|title=Career Leaders & Records for Shutouts|access-date=August 27, 2013}}</ref>