 Before the 1946 season , Feller signed a $ 50 @,@ 000 contract for the year , including a bonus for attendance , as the Indians felt many were attending baseball games primarily to see him ; he was offered $ 100 @,@ 000 by Jorge Pasquel to play in the Mexican League , but declined to leave the States again . Feller recorded his second career no @-@ hitter on April 30 , 1946 , against the New York Yankees . He allowed five walks and struck out 11 Yankees . Feller said of the game , " The no @-@ hitter on opening day in Chicago is the one that gets all the attention . But my no @-@ hitter at Yankee Stadium was against a much better team than the White Sox . There was no comparison . I had to pitch to Tommy Henrich , Charlie Keller and Joe DiMaggio in the ninth inning to get the Yankees out . " At one point during the season ( as Feller thought he might be nearing Rube Waddell 's AL record for strikeouts ) , Feller confirmed Waddell 's record of 344 strikeouts with the AL office as opposed to 349 . In his last appearance of the season on September 29 , Feller threw five strikeouts against the Detroit Tigers to set the then @-@ AL single @-@ season strikeout record . During the 1946 season , he registered career @-@ highs in strikeouts ( 348 ) , games started ( 42 ) and games pitched ( 48 ) , shutouts ( 10 ) , complete games ( 36 ) and innings pitched ( 377 @.@ 1 ) — all major league bests that season . Feller finished 26 – 15 with an ERA of 2 @.@ 18 , the latter a career @-@ low . Nearly 20 years later , Feller recalled , " For the 1946 season , though , the Indians were so thin in pitching that Boudreau decided I was to pitch every fourth day , regardless of rainouts , open dates , or anything else . " 
