Brooklyn’s Lovett no-hits Giants, 129 years ago today
The Brooklyn Grooms’ Tom Lovett threw a no-hitter against the New York Giants, 129 years ago today.
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).
Bunning tosses Fathers Day perfecto, 56 years ago today
The Philadelphia Phillies’ Jim Bunning tossed a Fathers Day perfect game against the New York Mets, 56 years ago today.
Dodgers’ Kershaw no-hits Rockies, 6 years ago today.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw threw a no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies six years ago today.
Back-to-back no-hit starts, Part 6 — Rex Barney
Today is the 82nd anniversary of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer’s amazing accomplishment of tossing the second of two back-to-back no-hitters. In part 6 of 6 in our series, we look at the last of the “other” no-hit starts – Rex Barney.
No-hitter and immaculate inning on same day, 57 years ago today
On Saturday, June 15, 1963, the San Francisco Giants’ Juan Marichal threw a no-no against the Colt .45’s and the Milwaukee Braves’ Tony Cloninger tossed an immaculate 8th inning against the Phillies.
Reds’ Vander Meer tosses back-to-back no-nos, 82 years ago today
Johnny Vander Meer became the first pitcher to throw no-hitters in back-to-back starts, 82 years ago today.