No-hitter alert, Freddy Garcia AND Ben Sheets

Garret Anderson strikes out as well. Two outs in eighth.

 

the white sox game is on wgn, fwiw

 

ESPN, too. Kiss it goodbye.

 

bye-bye.

 

I blame ESPN.

 

I blame soccer.

 

I'm almost heart broken that a white sox player didn't get the perfect game. almost.

 

I blame the Republicans.

 

I think two days later Andy Hawkins of the Yankees threw an eight-inning no-no and lost 4-0 to the White Sox at Comiskey Park. The Sox scored four runs in the seventh or eighth on a handful of errors.

 

July 1, 1990. That's what I was thinking about when I recalled leaving room for a no-hitter on our front page, just in case. The twist was Hawkins had played youth league ball in our city, so it was an even better story.

I was glad I planned for it.

 

Basseball doesn't officially recognize it but there have been two nine-inning no-hitters in the same game.

From the web: In 1917, Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs squared off in a pitcher's duel that was a hitless, scoreless tie after 9 innings–the only time in baseball history that neither team has had a hit in regulation.

The Reds got two hits in the top of the tenth inning and scored the winning run. In the bottom of the tenth, Toney retired the side and recorded a 10-inning no-hitter.

Vaughn isn't credited with a no-hitter.