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 

Highest Team OPS+

Here are all the teams with at least 115 since 1900 (from the Baseball Reference Play Index). Through games of May 11.

Rk	Year	Tm	Lg	OPS+		Rk	Year	Tm	Lg	OPS+
1	2019	HOU	AL	127		18	2011	BOS	AL	116
2	1927	NYY	AL	127		19	2007	NYY	AL	116
3	1931	NYY	AL	125		20	1998	NYY	AL	116
4	2017	HOU	AL	123		21	1995	CLE	AL	116
5	1930	NYY	AL	123		22	1978	MIL	AL	116
6	1982	MIL	AL	121		23	1913	PHA	AL	116
7	2019	MIN	AL	120		24	2019	LAD	NL	115
8	1976	CIN	NL	120		25	2015	TOR	AL	115
9	1997	SEA	AL	119		26	2005	NYY	AL	115
10	1994	NYY	AL	119		27	2000	SFG	NL	115
11	1933	NYY	AL	119		28	1994	CLE	AL	115
12	1932	NYY	AL	119		29	1993	DET	AL	115
13	1902	PIT	NL	119		30	1977	NYY	AL	115
14	2003	BOS	AL	118		31	1936	NYY	AL	115
15	2019	SEA	AL	117		32	1928	NYY	AL	115
16	2001	SEA	AL	117		33	1906	CLE	AL	115
17	2013	BOS	AL	116

But for non-DH leagues, the league average is only 93 or 94 (not sure if I ever understood any of the explanations for that since 100 is average, which is usually what DH leagues get or something close to that). So I just added 7 to all the teams from non-DH leagues. Here were the top 10:

Year	Tm	Lg	OPS+	OPS+7
1927	NYY	AL	127	134
1931	NYY	AL	125	132
1930	NYY	AL	123	130
2019	HOU	AL	127	127
1976	CIN	NL	120	127
1932	NYY	AL	119	126
1933	NYY	AL	119	126
1902	PIT	NL	119	126
1913	PHA	AL	116	123
2017	HOU	AL	123	123