Once again, we’re spending our first day of baseball season waiting to see if anyone can duplicate Hall of Famer Bob Feller’s accomplishment of throwing an Opening Day no-hitter.
Just 28 teams remain as we start Opening Day, as both the Oakland Athletics’ Mike Fiers and the Seattle Mariners’ Marco Gonzales missed their chances during the earlier openers at the Tokyo Dome in Japan.
We’ll keep a running tab of whose no-no chances remain alive below
Jacob deGrom | Max Scherzer | Andrew Cashner | Masahiro Tanaka | Miles Mikolas |
Jhoulys Chacin | Julio Teheran | Aaron Nola | Jordan Zimmermann | Marcus Stroman |
Justin Verlander | Blake Snell | Jon Lester | Mike Minor | Trevor Cahill |
Jameson Taillon | Luis Castillo | Kyle Freeland | José Ureña | Corey Kluber |
José Berrios | Madison Bumgarner | Eric Lauer | Zack Greinke | Hyun-Jin Ryu |
Carlos Rodón | Brad Keller | Chris Sale | Mike Fiers | Marco Gonzales |
Bob Feller threw MLB’s only Opening Day on April 16, 1940, using his “heater from Van Meter” fastball to mow down eight White Sox batters as the Cleveland Indians topped Chicago 1-0. Feller’s parents and sister, Marguerite, were among the 14,000 fans at Chicago’s Comiskey Park that afternoon.
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) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.
