Daily Archives: April 26, 2016

Shields takes Padres no-no into the 5th

No-hitter news, This day in Padres no-no historyBy Dirk Lammers April 26, 2016 2 Comments

The San Diego Padres’ James Shields took a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants into the fifth inning on Tuesday night, falling 15 outs short of tossing the first no-no in franchise history. With nobody out in the fifth, Shields gave up a Brandon Crawford single up the middle for the Padres’ 7,511th game with…

Five no-no birthdays today

No-no birthdaysBy Dirk Lammers April 26, 2016 Leave a comment

Today is one of two days throughout the calendar year in which we’re most flush with no-no birthdays. Five pitchers of no-hitters celebrate April 26 as the day of their entrances into the world: Ray Caldwell (born in 1888), Jesse Barnes (born in 1892), Virgil Trucks (pictured above, born in 1917), Sal Maglie (born in…