Apr42016
Hideo Nomo (Boston Red Sox)

Hideo Nomo (Boston Red Sox)

Today is the 15th anniversary of the earliest regular season no-hitter.

On Wednesday, April 4, 2001, during Boston Red Sox’s second game of the season, Hideo Nomo no-hit the Baltimore Orioles for a 3-0 win at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The Cleveland Indians Bob Feller threw baseball’s only Opening Day no-no, but it came on Tuesday, April 16, 1940.

Nomo no-hitter against Baltimore was his second no-no. On Tuesday, September 17, 1996, when Nomo was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he no-hit the Colorado Rockies for a 9-0 win at Coors Field.

(Feature photo Camden Yards by Geoff Livingston under license CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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