Mark Prior no-hitter alert

There was the one a couple of years ago when six Astros pitchers held the Yankees hitless.

There was one in the 70s where three or four A's pitchers combined for a no-hitter. I remember that because I think that was in September and the A's pretty much had the division clinched. I think it was Paul Lindblad who finished that one.

Baltimore had a no-hitter where two pitchers combined for a no hitter but they gave up at least two runs and might have lost the game... there were some walks and errors involved.

 

Mets win 1-0.

Somebody tell Dusty it's time wake up time

 

Some Pirates in the mid-90s??

 

Four or five Orioles no-hit the A's about 15 years back.

 

July 1, 1990: Yankees Andy Hawkins throws the season's 6th no-hitter, but still loses 4–0 to the White Sox. With two out in the bottom of the 8th, New York's Mike Blowers misplays Sosa's routine grounder for an error, and Hawkins walks two to load the bases. Outfielders Jim Leyritz and Jesse Barfield drop back-to-back fly balls to allow all four runs to score. Barfield loses Ivan Calderon's fly ball in the sun and the ball bounces off his mitt. Ken Johnson in 1964 was the last pitcher to lose a no-hitter

 

Kent Mercker! How could I forget? Buck, when are we going to get the answers?? ;D

 

Well ... this WAS coming an hour ago, you know ... so here here:

• 6/23/1917 -- Ruth, Babe (0); Shore, Ernie (9) -- Boston AL vs. Washington AL
• 4/30/1967 -- Barber, Steve (8.2); Miller, Stu (0.1) -- Baltimore vs. Detroit (Tigers won 2-1, scoring twice in the ninth on 3 BB, 1 WP, 1 fielder's choice/throwing error)
• 9/28/1975 -- Blue, Vida (5); Abbott, Glenn (1); Lindblad, Paul (1); Fingers, Rollie (2) -- Oakland vs. California
• 7/28/1976 -- Odom, Blue Moon (5); Barrios, Francisco (4) -- Chicago AL vs. Oakland
  
• 4/11/1990 -- Langston, Mark (7); Witt, Mike (2) -- California vs. Seattle
• 7/13/1991 -- Milacki, Bob (6); Flanagan, Mike (1); Williamson, Mark (1); Olson, Gregg (1) -- Baltimore vs. Oakland
• 9/11/1991 -- Mercker, Kent (6); Wohlers, Mark (2); Pena, Alejandro (1) -- Atlanta vs. San Diego
• 7/12/1997 -- Cordova, Francisco (9); Rincon, Ricardo (1) -- Pittsburgh vs. Houston
• 6/11/2003 -- Oswalt, Roy (2); Munro, Peter (2); Saarloos, Kirk (1); Lidge, Brad (2); Dotel, Octavio (1); Wagner, Billy (1) -- Houston vs. New York AL

 

I was at the Big House In Flushing for today's game.

Here's one reason that the Cubs are 4,000 games behind the rest of the National League.

Runners on first (Carlos Beltran) and third (Jose Reyes), two outs and Carlos Delgado at bat. Scott Eyre threw over to first at least three times. Why in the name of Ryne Sandberg would the Cubs be concerned about Carlos Beltran at first base? The winning run was standing at third.

Much like the New York Islanders, the Cubs are hopeless. Hopeless.

 

But for the record ...

Shore was later -- and properly -- credited with a combined no-hitter along with Ruth (not a perfect game) despite the fact that he faced 26 batters without any of them reaching base. You can't have a perfect game if someone reaches base, even if it's not off you. Sorry, Ernie. Helluvan effort, though.

Harvey Haddix doesn't get credit for a perfect game, either. Doesn't mean his wasn't the greatest pitching performance ever, because it was. But it still wasn't a perfect game.