MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

Forgive this minor threadjack ….

Took in the Nats’ Low A team here tonight, because my kid was making his high school marching band debut, playing the anthem.

Home team threw a three-pitcher combined no-hitter, and - in minor league style - managed to give up a run in the ninth for a 7-1 win.

Throwing a no-hitter while giving up a run has to be exceptionally rare, right?

Lead off walk, two errors, a blown double play, and a wild pitch got the guy in …

 

The Detroit Tigers beat the Orioles 2-1 in 1967 despite getting no-hit in the first game of a doubleheader in Baltimore.

The Tigers scored twice in the top of the ninth with two outs. Steve Barber walked the first two batters, then a sac bunt and popup. However, a wild pitch tied the game and Mickey Stanley walked. The O's put in Stu Miller, who got a ground ball to short but second baseman Mark Belanger dropped the throw that would have ended the inning, allowing the lead run to score.

Detroit Tigers vs Baltimore Orioles Box Score: April 30, 1967 | Baseball-Reference.com

 

Surprisingly there have been 25 no-hitters in which the team that got no-hit scored at least one run. Sort this by runs against:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_no-hitters

The best no-hitters are the unofficial ones in which the road team threw a no-hitter but lost and didn't pitch in the ninth, so it's not an official no-hitter. A rare misstep by Fay Vincent. Four of the five such not no-hitters have happened since 1990!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...-hit_losses_ending_in_the_middle_of_the_ninth

 

Speaking of no-hitters … no one is speaking of it in San Fran tonight.

 

That's cause it's in San Francisco!

 

Not any more.

 

Thank God for Fitzgerald.

 

And LMAO at a former Dodger coughing up the no-no.

 

Andy Hawkins weeps at his lost moment of glory.

 

One of my favorite weird baseball things. Guy threw a no-hitter and lost 4-0! Buck Showalter went off on a great tangent about it after the Mets' combined no-no in 2022.

 

When Cleveland does Cleveland things, I always think of my dad, who was born in 1953, after they blew a 3-1 lead in the 2007 ALCS just very plainly saying, “They’re really not going to do this thing in my lifetime, are they?”

That’s before they blew a 3-1 lead in the World Series.

This one is bad because there’s two more months of watching this thing burrow into the mud and then somehow explode into flames.