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…
On this day in 1898, Ted Breitenstein and Jim Jay Hughes threw no-hitters on the sane day. Ted Breitenstein, who pitched for the Cincinnati Reds, no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati’s League Park. That same day, Jim Jay Hughes, of the National League Baltimore Orioles, no-hit the Boston Beaneaters. The feat wasn’t duplicated until 1991,…
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…
Pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training camp today for the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Indians, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants. Other teams’ pitcher-and-catcher reporting dates are Thursday and Friday, and full workouts mostly begin next week after position players arrive in Florida and Arizona. Just 46 days…
On Oct. 15, 1892, 122 years ago today, Charles Leander “Bumpus” Jones tossed a no-hitter in his first major league appearance for the Cincinnati Reds, topping the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-1. Two other pitchers – Ted Breitenstein of the American Association’s St. Louis Browns (1891) and Bobo Holloman of the American League’s St. Louis Browns (1953)…
As the Padres’ no no-hitter count reaches 7,316 games today (Domonic Brown tagged Ian Kennedy in the second for a homer), we celebrate the one-year anniversary of Andrew Cashner’s first of his two one-hitters. Cashner was holding the Pittsburgh Pirates without a base runner through six innings on Sept. 16, 2013, but José Tabata led…