Has a team ever been no-hit but won?
If someone told you that a team recorded no hits in a baseball game, you would probably -- and reasonably -- assume that team lost said game. Well, on June 28, 2008, the Dodgers beat that Angels despite not recording a single hit in the game.
Seven times a team has been no-hit and still won the game: two notable victories occurred when the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Houston Colt .
Nine-inning no-hitters in a losing effort
Unlike a perfect game, in which no batters reach base, in regular no-hitters batters can reach base in other ways, such as a walk, an error, or a hit batsman, thus it is possible for the team pitching the no-hitter to lose. On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .
Necciai is best remembered for the unique feat of striking out 27 batters in a nine-inning game, which he accomplished while playing with the Class-D Appalachian League team, the Bristol Twins, on May 13, 1952.
Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.
A perfect game is a no-hitter in which no runner is allowed to reach base, whether by hit, base-on-balls, hit-by-pitch or error.
How is a no-hitter different from a perfect game? A perfect game is a no-hitter, where a pitcher completes a game without the other team reaching first base. It is different from a no-hitter because batters can still reach first base from a walk or error, and the game can still be considered a no-hitter.
The Pittsburgh Pirates became the sixth team in MLB history to win a game despite being no-hit. The Pittsburgh Pirates found their way into the MLB record books on Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds by winning the game 1-0 without recording a single hit.
Every major league franchise has been no-hit at least twice, with the Philadelphia Phillies leading the way with 21 no-nos thrown against the club over its long history.
After nearly 70 years, they still talk about that game in Winchester. It was no ordinary no-hitter. It went 17 innings, a feat still unchallenged as the longest no-hit game in professional baseball history.
What is the longest perfect game?
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| Harvey Haddix | |
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| Strikeouts | 1,575 |
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Of the 230 no-hitters thrown starting in 1900, only 17 included runs scored by the team without hits. The last time the hitless team scored a run in a no hitter was September 8, 1993 when Darryl Kile and the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets 7-1.
One such rarity is the immaculate inning. You've probably heard of it -- an immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters in an inning, on three pitches each. The immaculate inning used to be very rare -- there were none from 1929-52.
It's a pretty rare feat. But ... have you ever seen a two-pitch inning? As in, a pitcher only needs two pitches to record a clean inning of work? If you watched the Rome Braves' win over the West Virginia Power on Friday night, you did.
Johnny Vander Meer is the only pitcher to throw no-hitters in consecutive starts -- he did it on June 11 and June 15, 1938, exactly 75 years ago. But six times -- four times more than anyone in history -- Ryan had a chance to equal Vander Meer. Ryan's best chance came on July 19, 1973.
- Clayton Kershaw's 12-6 Curveball.
- R.A. Dickey's Knuckleball.
- Mariano Rivera's Cutter.
- Randy Johnson's Slider.
- Sandy Koufax's Curveball.
- Trevor Hoffman's Changeup.
- Greg Maddux's Two-Seamer.
- Satchel Paige's Hesitation Pitch.
In the American League, the longest 0–0 game was played between the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1909. The game was called after 18 innings due to darkness at Bennett Park in Detroit.
The 0-0 score through 17 innings made it the longest scoreless game in MLB postseason history. The Guardians-Rays game last week held the previous record at 14 1⁄2 scoreless innings. The Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays are deep into extra innings in Game 2 of their Wild Card series in the 2022 MLB playoffs.
Facing the Cleveland Indians, Galarraga retired the first 26 batters he faced. His bid for a perfect game was ruined one out short when first-base umpire Jim Joyce incorrectly ruled that Indians batter Jason Donald reached first base safely on a ground ball.
The Astros' Luis Garcia and Phil Maton both fanned three hitters on nine pitches to help Houston become the only team in MLB history to toss a pair of immaculate innings in the same game.
Did Nolan Ryan ever pitch a perfect game?
Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters. Despite this, he never pitched a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award; both were largely attributed to his high walk rate. Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in MLB games in four different decades.
Has there ever been a 27-strikeout baseball game? No, there has never been a 27-strikeout baseball game. The all-time record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game is 20. This has been done by both Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox, and Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs.
It wasn't until third baseman Kuo Fu-Lin led off the ninth inning with a walk-off home run that Verdugo earned his perfect game. The media could not be played.
In baseball, if you get three hits out of every ten at-bats, that means a . 300 average and you'll be one of the best hitters in the game. And for this very reason alone, Popular Science says that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.
The perfect game — 27 up, 27 down — is the rarest of baseball feats. There have been only 23 of them in major league history, with the first two coming in 1880.
Ray Chapman
During the game Chapman was struck by a ball that was pitched, and was rushed to the hospital in grave condition. Chapman died at the hospital the next day, a fatality of the game.
In a 22-0 shellacking of the Chicago Cubs that day, Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett would record a hit in all seven of his at-bats – becoming the first and to date the only modern-era player to accomplish this in a nine-inning game.
Boston sent 23 batters to the plate, and 20-year-old rookie Gene Stephens -- who had a . 591 OPS for the season -- set a modern record with three hits in the same inning.
It was on that night that Campaneris -- then just a 23-year-old in his first full big league season -- became the first player in AL/NL history to play all nine positions in the same game.
More than 9,000 men have taken the mound in a big league game, but what pitcher Johnny Vander Meer accomplished more than three quarters of a century ago by tossing back-to-back no-hitters is considered by many one of the game's most unbreakable records.
When was the last time a team was no-hit and won?
The last time it happened was in 2008, when the LA Dodgers beat the LA Angels despite Halos pitchers Jered Weaver and José Arredondo throwing a no-hitter.
Johnny Vander Meer threw back-to-back no-hitters in 1938. On Saturday, June 11, 1938, 78 years ago today, the Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Vander Meer no-hit the Boston Bees at home at Crosley Field.
Every major league franchise has been no-hit at least twice, with the Philadelphia Phillies leading the way with 21 no-nos thrown against the club over its long history.
What is the most innings a team has gone without a hit? Cy Young -- yeah, that guy. On this day 118 years ago, Young gave up his first base hit in over two weeks, snapping a streak of 24 consecutive hitless innings that, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, remains unchallenged as the Major League record.
In a 22-0 shellacking of the Chicago Cubs that day, Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett would record a hit in all seven of his at-bats – becoming the first and to date the only modern-era player to accomplish this in a nine-inning game.
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Harvey Haddix's near-perfect game.
| Harvey Haddix in 1953, six years before his 12-perfect-inning game | |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates Milwaukee Braves 0 1 | |
| City | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
There has never been a complete-game double no-hitter in the major leagues. It has occurred 10 times in the minors: Aug. 7, 1886: Oakland's George Van Haltren beat San Francisco's Jim McMullin 4-2 in a California League game that featured a lot of runs when you consider neither team had a hit.
Has an MLB pitcher ever thrown two perfect games? MLB's 23 perfect games were thrown by 23 different pitchers, meaning no player has ever recorded more than one and there has never been a combined perfecto.
Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak is one of the most famous "unbreakable" records, but his .
June 8, 1961: Milwaukee Braves belt a record four consecutive home runs in one inning.
Has any team went 16-0?
The Patriots finished the season 16-0 thanks largely to an offense that scored an NFL-best 36.8 points per game and defeated its first 8 opponents by a combined 204 points. Patriots QB Tom Brady won the league MVP after leading the NFL with 4,806 passing yards and set the single-season record with 50 TD throws.
The New England Patriots (USA) scored a 16-0 record in 2007, becoming the first team in NFL history to achieve an undefeated regular season since the league went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
The only three NFL teams in history to lose all their games were the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0-16), the 2008 Detroit Lions (0-16) and the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14). So far, no team has gone 0-17, since the league has only expanded to 17 regular season games last year.