Baseball thread No. 7: Somebody slip the pinstripers a Mickey

Lincecum no-hitter through five in Colorado ...

 

How is it possible that there were six UTP's in the 1920s, including two on back-to-back days, only one between then and 1991, and seven since?

And that wiki article already has the one from today ... as well as a BOOO METS! line that I suspect will be removed at some stage.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1927/B05310DET1927.htm

1st UTP to end a game since Johnny Neun on May 31, 1927. That one was a 1-0 game.

 

With both runners stealing, Bruntlett just had to be at the right place at the right time. Sure enough, he was.

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200908236246223&c_id=phi

 

That's Werth's 3-run bomb in the 1st. Here's the play:

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6256159

 

74 pitches (6 k's, 3 bb's) thru 5. any way he pitches full 9?

 

I have my doubts ... especially now that the no-hitter is over. Todd Helton singles up the middle with one out in the sixth.

 

Let me be the first to declare that Oliver Perez sucks b/c he's older than his listed age. Dude is going gray and he's, what, 28? Of course if I pitched for the Mets, I'd be going gray too.

 

plenty of men go gray in their 20's. not that i doubt perez could be older. what's the diff? he sucks at any age.

 

That's a great point. I still stand by Ollie being like 38 though.

 

Here's the call on the UTP from the Phillies' announcers...

http://www.thefightins.com/meechone/eric-bruntletts-game-ending-unassisted-triple-play/