A happy 29th birthday to Homer Bailey, thrower of two no-hitters for the Cincinnati Reds in 2012 and 2013. Bailey, who will miss the remainder of the 2015 season to undergo Tommy John surgery, first no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates for on Friday, September 28, 2012 for a 1-0 win at PNC Park. Less than a…
Today is the 98th anniversary of baseball’s only double nine-inning no-hitter. The Chicago Cubs’ Hippo Vaughn and the Cincinnati Reds’ Fred Toney each held their opponents hitless through nine innings of baseball at Weeghman Park on Wednesday, May 2, 1917. The game went to the 10th, and the Reds scored on a single, an error…
The Kansas City Royals took a no-hitter into the eighth inning Friday en route to a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Royals starter Chris Young held the Tigers hitless for five innings, and Ryan Madson followed with two perfect innings. Reliever Kelvin Herrera took the ball for the eighth, and the Tigers’ Nick Castellanos…
Nolan Ryan threw his major league record seventh no-hitter, 24 years ago today. Ryan, pitching for the Texas Rangers at the age of 44 on May 1, 1991, struck out 16 Blue Jays and held the others to no hits as the Rangers topped Toronto 3-0. Three other no-hitters were thrown on May 1 in…
Five no-hitters have been thrown on this date (April 30), but only four of the pitchers (Charlie Robertson, James “Tex” Carleton, Bob Feller and Jim Maloney) also earned a victory. The Baltimore Orioles’ tandem of Steve Barber (8 2/3 in), Stu Miller (1/3 in) combined to throw a no-hit loss. Here are the April 30…
The San Diego Padres are wearing their Way-back Wednesday brown and oranges, so we thought we’d update the count in the same theme. Starter Andrew Cashner struck out the first six batters today before giving up a double in the third to the Houston Astros’ Jake Marisnick, bumping the count up to 7,351 games.