Marlins no-hit Tigers, 9 years ago today
Three Florida Marlins pitchers threw a spring training no-hitter, nine 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).
Mets’ first no-hitter, 53 years ago today
Fifty-three 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.
Happy birthday Carlos Carrasco, lost no-no with 2 outs in 9th in 2015
Happy 31st birthday to the Cleveland Indians’ Carlos Carrasco, who lost a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning in 2015.
No-no throwers Kennedy, Shoun born on this date
No-no throwers Vern Kennedy and Clyde Shoun were born on this date.
Happy 30th birthday, Clayton Kershaw
Happy 30th birthday to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, who threw a no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies in 2014.
Happy birthday to ‘Nixey’ Callahan, threw first AL no-hitter
Today would be the 144th birthday of James “Nixey” Callahan, who threw the first American League no-hitter.