On this date in 2014, Félix Hernández recorded a career-high 15 strikeouts in a 5–0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.
Hernández’s 15 punchouts on that Sunday afternoon in St. Petersburg brought his season total to a Major League-leading 106 strikeouts. The right-hander would finish the season with 248 strikeouts — a single-season career-best — and 4th-most in the American League, as he finished 2nd in AL Cy Young voting.
In each of the first four innings, Hernández stranded one Rays runner. He struck out the side in the 5th inning and retired 10 of the last 11 batters he faced, including seven via strikeout.