The St. Louis Cardinals, a franchise that also played under the names of the St. Louis Browns and the St. Louis Perfectos in the team’s early days, have thrown 10 no-hitters. Of the Dean brothers, oddly, it is Paul, not Dizzy, who has a Cards no-no to his credit. Bob Forsch is the only Cardinals…
A happy 47th birthday to Ramón Martínez, who threw a no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Martínez no-hit the Florida Marlins on July 14, 1995 for a 7-0 victory at Dodger Stadium. The 6-foot-4 right-handed fastballer struck out eight and walked just one, and he didn’t throw a single breaking ball after the…
Fifty years ago today, the New York Mets threw the club’s first no-hitter, with Gary Kroll and Gordie Richardson combining for nine innings of no-hit ball during a 6-0 spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in St. Petersburg, Florida. Kroll pitched the first six innings on March 22, 1965, walking three batters in the…
The No. 15 position on our NoNoHitters 30 list belongs to the Baltimore Orioles, an American League franchise that spent the 1901 season in Milwaukee as the Brewers before settling in St. Louis for 51 seasons as the Browns. The ball club has thrown nine no-hitters over 114 years of history. Earl Hamilton threw the…
It’s a busy day for no-no birthdays, with our wishes going out to Vern Kennedy and Clyde Shoun. Kennedy, a Chicago White Sox pitcher born on this day in 1907, threw a no-no for against the Cleveland Indians at Comiskey Park on August 31, 1935. The Cincinnati Reds’ Clyde Shoun, born in 1912, no-hit the…
The Minnesota Twins franchise, which began American League play as the Washington Senators in 1901 and spent 60 years in the nation’s capital before moving to Minneapolis, has thrown seven no-hitters. That gives the Twins the No. 16 spot on our NoNoHitters 30 count down. The great Walter Johnson threw the franchise’s first no-no, and…