Nationals’ Max Scherzer throws no-hitter vs. Pirates
The Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer has thrown baseball’s 289th no-hitter, becoming just the second pitcher to plunk the 27th batter during a perfecto yet recover for the no-no.
Haddix’s 12 perfect innings, 56 years ago today
Today is the 56th anniversary of baseball’s greatest pitching performance. On May 26, 1959, in Harvey Haddix’s first season with the Pirates, the Medway, Ohio southpaw retired 36 Milwaukee Braves batters for a perfect game through 12 innings, but his team couldn’t score. Haddix lost the perfect game when Don Hoak threw a routine grounder…
Jones becomes first African-American to throw no-no, 60 years ago today
"Toothpick" Sam Jones became the first African-American to throw a Major League Baseball no-hitter, 60 years ago today. Jones, pitching for the Chicago Cubs on May 12, 1955, no-hit the Pittsburgh Pirates for a 4-0 win at Wrigley Field. He completed an accomplishment that likely would have been preceded by such Negro Leagues greats as…
Happy birthday to two-time no-no thrower Homer Bailey
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…
Anniversary of majors’ first same-day no-nos
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,…
50th anniversary of Mets’ first no-hitter
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…