since 1978, while winning his third Cy Young Award. His ERA was about a third of the park-adjusted league ERA (4.97). No other single season by a starting pitcher has had such a large differential. Roger Clemens' 3.70 was the second-lowest ERA in the AL, but was still more than double that of Martínez. Martínez also set a record in the lesser-known sabermetric statistic of Weighted Runs allowed per nine innings pitched (Wtd. RA/9), posting a remarkably low 1.55 Wtd. RA/9. He gave up only 128 hits in 217 innings, for an average of just 5.31 hits allowed per nine innings pitched: the third-lowest mark on record. Martínez's record was 18–6, but the six losses were largely tough luck. In his six losses, Martínez had 60 strikeouts, eight walks, and 30 hits allowed in 48 innings, with a 2.44 ERA and an 0.79 WHIP, while averaging eight innings per start. Martínez's ERA in his losing games was less than the leading ERA total in the lower-scoring National League (Kevin Brown's 2.58). The Yankees' Andy Pettitte outdueled Martínez twice; Martínez's other four losses were each by one run. Martínez's first loss of the year was a 1–0 complete game in which he had 17 strikeouts and one walk. All of Martínez's losses were quality starts, and he pitched eight or more innings in all but one of his losses. Martínez received two runs or fewer of run support in 10 of his starts (over one-third of his starts), in which his ERA was a minuscule 1.25 with 4 complete games and 2 shutouts, but his win–loss record was 4–5. Martínez's WHIP in 2000 was 0.74, breaking both the 87-year-old modern Major League record set by Walter Johnson, as well as Guy Hecker's mark of 0.77 in 1882. The American League slugged just .259 against him. Hitters also had a .167 batting average and .213 on-base percentage, setting two more modern era records. In the 2000 season, Martínez became the first starting pitcher in MLB history to have more than twice as many strikeouts in a season (284) as hits allowed (128) (later, also accomplished by Randy Johnson in 2001 with 372 strikeouts and 181 hits as well as Max Scherzer in 2017, and both Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander in 2019). Martínez also set an American League record in K/BB, with a ratio of 8.88, surpassing the previous record set by