Sunday, May 19, 2019

Most strikeouts without allowing a walk

Over his last 3 starts, Chris Sale has 40 strikeouts since his last walk. A few years ago I had a post on this using research from Tom Ruane. See Kershaw now has 45 strikeouts since his last walk-but is it a record?

That was in 2015. Tom sent me an updated list since some pitchers have joined the leaders since then. Here is what he sent me. The first number is strikeouts followed by IP and the dates. Maybe Sale will join the leaders today

Curt Schilling         56  44.0 2002- 5-13    2002- 6- 8   
Greg Maddux            53  71.2 2001- 6-20    2001- 8-12   
Kenley Jansen          53  32.2 2016-10- 1    2017- 6-25   
Pedro Martinez         49  42.1 2000- 8- 2    2000- 9- 4   
Matt Shoemaker         49  39.0 2016- 5-16    2016- 6-11   
Corey Kluber           49  47.1 2018- 5- 8    2018- 6-15   
Dennis Eckersley       47  51.2 1989- 8-22    1990- 6-12   
Jeff Samardzija        47  38.2 2017- 4-28    2017- 5-25   
Koji Uehara            46  38.1 2010- 7-19    2011- 4-17   
Craig Kimbrel          46  27.0 2012- 5-20    2012- 8- 2   
Clayton Kershaw        46  34.0 2015- 7- 3    2015- 8- 1   
John Smoltz            45  39.0 2003- 7-24    2004- 6-11   
Eric Gagne             43  29.0 2002- 5- 4    2002- 7- 3   
Javier Vazquez         43  54.2 2005- 4-25    2005- 6- 9   
Cliff Lee              43  31.2 2013- 9-11    2014- 3-31   
Chris Archer           43  29.2 2015- 5-27    2015- 6-13 
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3 comments:

  1. Phil BirnbaumMay 19, 2019 at 12:42 PM

    Without allowing a walk, your title should say?

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  2. Cyril MorongMay 19, 2019 at 2:42 PM

    Thanks. I changed it

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  3. AnonymousMay 23, 2019 at 6:27 AM

    "Players hit 1,144 home runs in 874 games through April 30, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, an average of 1.31 per game. That is on track to break the record average of 1.26 set two years ago."

    Too many HR's, too many K's

    I always get a chuckle when I watch kids play their first organized baseball and a bored outfielder lays down or starts picking dandilions.
    Maybe we'll soon see that in the Majors it's getting so boring.
    Listening to some ESPN taking head go into a frenzy about a HR like some space ship just landed is so over done, so repetitious, so boring.... And by the time the batter looks at his HR, flips his bat, waddles around the bases, goes into his "signature handshakes" with his team mates, and AWS puts up all the details of the HR you could have done a load of laundry.

    Why not just paint a superball white and print seams on it? Then you can reduce the MLB game to a pitcher, catcher and a batter. Then everyone is happy: more home runs, shorter games, more commercials, smaller rosters/payroll, more games, just great moronic TV for everyone....
    Phil, bored in Buffalo

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