Next up in our NoNoHitters 30 countdown is the Tampa Bay Rays, who left the Mets and Padres alone in the no-no club on July 26, 2010 when Matt Garza no-hit the Detroit Tigers at Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Rays, who were originally known as the Devil Rays when they entered the American League…
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We continue our NoNoHitters 30 countdown today with the team that took more than a half century to finally get one, the New York Mets. The 8,019-game streak began on April 11, 1962, when the St. Louis Cardinals’ Julian Javier singled to left off Mets starter Roger Craig during the Mets franchise’s first major league…
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To celebrate the 30 days leading up to Opening Day 2015, NoNoHitters.com is highlighting each team’s no-no accomplishments in reverse order from the San Diego Padres (0) to the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (25) We start with the San Diego Padres, the only major league team void of a no-hitter. A San Diego Padres pitcher has…
DetailsJohn Montgomery Ward, who threw the majors’ second perfect game in 1880, was born 155 years ago today. Ward threw his perfecto for the National League’s Providence Grays on June 17, 1880, shutting out the Buffalo Bisons 5-0 at the Messer Street Grounds in Providence. Beating him to the punch five days earlier was Lee…
DetailsTwo Lehigh University pitchers combined to throw an 11-inning no-hitter Saturday as the Mountain Hawks topped the Iona Gaels 2-0 during the first game of a doubleheader played in Summerville, South Carolina. (Read the full story here.) Lehigh senior Nick Macaione threw nine innings of no-hit ball, yielding just one walk. Junior Kevin Boswick took…
DetailsLong before “Field of Dreams,” “Bull Durham” and “Major League” hit the silver screen, Leonard Nimoy played an uncredited part of a ballplayer in a film about a once feral cat owning a major league club. Nimoy, best known for portraying “Mr. Spock” on “Star Trek,” died today at the age of 83. In the…
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