The New York Yankees have had some of the best pitchers to ever play the game of baseball, but no starting pitcher has been more successful in the postseason. Andy Pettitte is the game’s all-time leader in playoff wins (19), innings (276 2/3) and starts (44) and he ranks fourth in strikeouts behind Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander and John Smoltz.
Not many of those innings were wasted: Pettitte won at least two postseason starts for the Yankees’ 1996 and 1998-2000 champions. His finest hour might have come in 2009, when, he started a game with only three days rest during the playoffs.