From 1956 to 2008, (requiring PickOffs≥3), sorted by greatest PickOffs in a game

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Most pickoffs in one game. Jarry Garvin on 1977-05-25 and Bill Wright on 1956-07-03 both got four pickoffs
  Cnt Player            Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt App,Dec    IP   H  R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GmSc IR IS BF AB 2B 3B IBB HBP SH SF GDP SB CS **Pk** BK WP   ERA
 ----+-----------------+-------------+---+----+-------+---------+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+----+--+--+--+--+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+--+--+------+--+--+------ 
    1 Jerry Garvin      1977-05-25    TOR  OAK L  5-6  GS-10 ,L   9.2  9  6  3  4  5  2           54       39 34  1  0   0   0  0  1   0  1  2    4    0  0   2.79 
    2 Bill Wight        1956-07-03    BAL @NYY L  3-4  GS-6       6   10  3  2  3  3  0           42       29 26  0  0   0   0  0  0   0  0  0    4    0  1   3.00 

    3 Mark Langston     1989-09-11    MON @CHC L  3-4  GS-7  ,L   7    7  4  3  5  8  0 113  60   52       30 24  1  1   1   0  1  0   0  0  3    3    0  0   3.86 
    4 Mike Moore        1984-06-27    SEA @CHW L  7-9  GS-6       5    7  5  4  2  0  0           33       21 18  1  1   0   0  0  1   0  0  1    3    0  0   7.20 
    5 Tippy Martinez    1983-08-24    BAL  TOR W  7-4  10-10f,W   1    1  0  0  1  0  0               1  0  2  1  0  0   0   0  0  0   0  0  1    3    0  0   0.00 
    6 Steve Carlton     1983-04-29    PHI  HOU L  3-6  GS-10 ,L   9.1 11  5  3  2  8  1           56       38 35  1  0   0   0  1  0   0  1  3    3    0  0   2.89 
    7 John Tudor        1982-05-30    BOS @SEA L  1-2  GS-9  ,L   8.2  7  2  2  2  8  0           68       31 29  1  0   0   0  0  0   1  0  1    3    0  0   2.08 
    8 Phil Niekro       1977-07-29    ATL  PIT W  5-3  CG 9  ,W   9    8  3  3  3  7  0           63       36 31  3  1   0   1  1  0   1  1  1    3    0  1   3.00 
    9 Jerry Garvin      1977-04-25(1) TOR  BOS W  4-3  GS-7       7    9  3  3  2  4  1           49       30 27  0  0   0   0  1  0   0  3  1    3    0  0   3.86 

Games found: 9.

App,Dec

This column contains the innings for the appearance and any decision ('W'in, 'L'oss, or 'S'ave) the player earned. Lower cases 's' and 'f' indicate they started or finished the game. A 'CG' indicates a complete game with the number giving the number of innings. 'SHO' is a shutout with the number of innings. For example, 's1-6 ,W' indicates the pitcher started the game and left during or after the sixth inning and earned the win.

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