Strikeouts and shutouts are so in today: https://t.co/6ULsJY6erv pic.twitter.com/Y08oF613DO — MLB (@MLB) April 14, 2016 When the St. Louis Cardinals’ Jaime Garcia entered the sixth inning Thursday with a no-hitter but not a perfect game intact, the game carried a rather odd tidbit: The only Milwaukee Brewer to reach base at the time did so…
Happy 48th birthday to Scott Erickson, who threw a no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in 1994. Erickson had been struggling when he took the ball on Wednesday, April 27, 1994, entering the game with a 7.48 ERA. But he treated the 18,000 fans at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome by no-hitting Milwaukee Brewers for a…
Happy birthday to “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker, who once played in a no-hitter. I got to interview Uecker at Miller Park last summer while researching my book Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders, which is set for release on March 15. We talked a lot about the right way to call a no-hitter as a broadcaster (he’s in…
Happy 51st birthday to Juan Nieves, who threw the only no-hitter in Milwaukee Brewers history. Nieves, who was born in the Santurce section of San Juan, is the first Puerto Rico-born pitcher to throw a major-league no-hitter. At Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium on Wednesday, April 15, 1987, Nieves no-hit the Orioles for a 7-0 win. The…
In the past five days, six pitchers have reached the fifth inning or later with a no-hitter intact. History tells us that there’s a good chance one will go even deeper tonight. September 28 is one of four dates sharing the record for most no-hitters with six. The others are April 27, May 15 and…
Celebrating a no-no birthday today is Ed Cushman, who threw a no-hitter for the Milwaukee Brewers of the Union Association on September 28, 1884. Cushman blanked the Washington Nationals 5-0 that day at Milwaukee’s Wright Street Grounds. Cushman was born 163 years ago today.