Dodgers get no hits, beat Angels 1-0

[Oeditpus Rex]

Fourth time in major league history a ball club has lost a no-hitter.



:bounce: :woohoo:

[ellisonz]

1. Go Dodgers!

[Arkham House]

2. And that doesn't include Harvey Haddix...

...that's probably the strangest game in baseball history...twelve perfect innings...and losing...

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Nor Ernie Shore

Babe Ruth walked the first Washington batter he faced with Boston on June 23, 1917 and was then thrown out of the game for arguing with an umpire (no doubt over the call on ball four). Shore came in, the runner was either picked off or thrown out stealing and Shore got the next 26 batters.

[KitchenWitch]

3. I thought of you when I heard that!

:D

[Shakespeare]

4. That's why I love baseball.

The most bizarre, mathematically unlikely things like that make it so much fun to watch.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Here's the strangest part:

The Dodgers' "rally" started when Matt Kemp topped a ball with so much English that Rick Monday said he'd never seen a baseball act that way. Weaver couldn't handle it and the official scorer gave him an error, prompting Monday to say, "I'd like to see him put on a glove and try to field that ball." Kemp later scored on a sac fly by Blake DeWitt, the 2008 NL Rookie of the Year.

In the ninth, nobody was complaining about the scorer's decision anymore. :D

[JTG of the PRB]

5. Such a bizarre game!

I guess it's not TECHNICALLY a no-hitter because MLB changed the rule a few years ago that says a no-hitter has to be nine innings pitched, and the Angles only pitched 8 no-hit innings because they lost the game. Whatever. :eyes:

Weird, weird, weird game. That's why I love baseball!

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. You're right

It won't go in the books as a no-hitter since the Dodgers were the home club so they didn't bat in the ninth. I was so excited last night that I didn't realize that until later, when I read a story on the game that listed the other no-hit losses. There've been five, but only one was a "book" no-hitter: On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt 45s gave up no hits to Cincinnati, but made the first of two ninth-inning errors that led to the game's only run. Box and play-by-play

On April 30, 1967, Steve Barber (8 2/3 innings) and Stu Miller (1/3 inning) of Baltimore no-hit Detroit but lost 2-1 in the ninth on three walks, a wild pitch, a sacrifice, a fielder's choice and an error. That one's not in the books, though, since there were two pitchers involved. Box and play-by-play

Matt Young (Boston, vs. Cleveland, April 12, 1992) and Andy Hawkins (Jankees, vs. White Sox, July 1, 1990) both lost eight-inning no-hitters. The weird part about the latter is the Sox won 4-0, with all four runs coming in the eighth after there were two outs; Hawkins walked two and the Jankees made three errors.