Not bad for your @MLB debut, @RossStripling. https://t.co/57Vbdh9erN pic.twitter.com/mJg8hq3jOw — MLB (@MLB) April 9, 2016 The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Ross Stripling tossed 7⅓ innings of no-hit ball in his first major-league appearance Friday night before being pulled for a reliever who lost the no-no. When Stripling hit 100 pitches, Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts took the…
Happy birthday to the Chicago Cubs’ James “Hippo” Vaughn, who came up on the losing end of baseball’s only double nine-inning no-hitter. Vaughn, born 128 years ago today and the Cincinnati Reds’ Fred Toney, pictured above, both held their opponents hitless through nine innings of baseball at Weeghman Park on Wednesday, May 2, 1917. The…
The Atlanta Braves’ Kent Mercker threw a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on this day in 1994. Mercker, who had already thrown 6 innings of a combined no-hitter in 1991, held the Dodgers to four walks (two of them in the first inning) on Friday, April 8, 1994 at Dodger Stadium. Only one Dodger…
Today is a busy day for no-no birthdays, with Bill Stoneman turning 72, Tom Phoebus turning 74 and Ed Lafitte (1866) born on this day. Stoneman threw two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos. His first came in the club’s ninth game, as Stoneman no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, April 17, 1969 at Connie Mack…
The San Diego Padres, the only club still without a no-hitter, set a major-league record Wednesday night by becoming the first club to begin a season by getting shut out three straight times. In going down 1-2-3 in the ninth against the Los Angles Dodgers in the 7-0 loss, the Padres surpassed the 1943 St.…
Bert Blyleven and Tommy Greene are celebrating no-no birthdays today. Blyleven, the only no-hitter thrower born in the Netherlands, turns 65 today. The Texas Rangers pitcher from Zeist no-hit the California Angels on Thursday, September 22, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium. Blyleven, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011, is now…