Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today

May262016

Harvey Haddix

Today marks the 57th anniversary of what is perhaps the greatest baseball game ever thrown by a pitcher.

On May 26, 1959, in Harvey Haddix’s first season with the Pirates, the Medway, Ohio southpaw retired 36 Milwaukee Braves batters for a perfect game through 12 innings, but his team couldn’t score. Haddix lost the perfect game when Don Hoak threw a routine grounder in the dirt, then lost the no-hitter and the game when Joe Adcock launched a ball over the right-center field fence.

Haddix was later immortalized by The Baseball Project, which asks in its chrous, “Why don’t we add ‘ol Harvey to the list?”

Category: This day in no-no historyMay 26, 2016 6 Comments

Author: Dirk Lammers

https://www.nonohitters.com/about-the-author/

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).

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nonohitters says:

May 26, 2016 at 11:12 am

Pittsburgh @Pirates’ Harvey Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today. @BaseballProject … https://t.co/BRGh2Zpkto

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May 26, 2016 at 11:32 am

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May 26, 2016 at 11:18 pm

RT @nonohitters: Pittsburgh @Pirates’ Harvey Haddix tosses 12 perfect innings and loses, 57 years ago today. @BaseballProject … https://t…

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