He enjoyed his best season the following year; despite the Cubs' record, Jackson was with 148 strikeouts and a 3.14 earned run average. He also set a major league record for pitchers with 109 total chances without an error, breaking the mark of 108 shared by Three Finger Brown () and Eppa Rixey (); Randy Jones broke his record with 112 for the San Diego Padres in . With only one Cy Young Award for both leagues at that time, Dean Chance of the American League's Los Angeles Angels won the award with 17 of the 20 votes; Jackson received two votes, while Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers received one. Jackson lost 21 games in 1965, the first since Murry Dickson in 1951–52 to have twenty wins and twenty losses in consecutive seasons. One of those losses was in ten innings to Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds, who threw a no-hitter with