Posted on 06/13/2012 9:51:14 PM PDT by stillonaroll
Perfecto for Cainer!
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It would have to include every ball being hit back to the pitcher, who would complete the play unassisted. 27 strikeouts with no balls is the other that comes to mind. Neither is likely to happen.
I got a heads up on the game in the third inning. So we turned the game on.
We had our very active grandson for a week and both of us were ready to crash by the 7 th inning.
When Blanco made that incredible catch after Melky’s great catch, we knew that we were watching something that was great. We were wide awake after that.
Manager Bruce made some great fielding substitutions for the last two innings and the substitutes made great plays to preserve Matt’s no hitter and perfect game.
Most of the Giant pitchers trust Buster to make the right calls during the game. That takes a lot of strain off them.
Kudos to Matt, Buster, Melky, Blanco, Bruce and the rest of the Giants for a great game which is now in the hall of records.
An AL pitcher would have been resting in the dugout. That's not real baseball.
You're darn tootin'!
Giants, Dodgers and Nationals all with superb pitching so far.
My World Champion St. Louis Cardinals-not so much.
I think your NL pennant winner comes from among those three.
Pitching is the currency of baseball.
The Giants pitching, with the unexpected exception of Tim Lincecum, has been excellent again this year, even with Brian Wilson out. Barry Zito has been okay, but has shown more of his usual form over the last couple of starts.
I recall the 1962 season, which ended with both teams tied for first place, so a playoff game was scheduled.
On the day of the playoff, we were experiencing a heat wave and few people in my neighborhood had air conditioning, so when I walked down the street, I could hear through the open doors and windows that just about everyone was tuned in to the game--and rooting for the Dodgers.
However, the Giants prevailed and went on to face the Yanks in the World Series.
Boo, LaLa Dodjerks
Tied the strikeout record for a perfecto with 14.
Almost had another Mets no hitter as well. RA Dickey was 2 plays from a perfect game and I haven’t seen the video but people think the 1 infield hit was an error. An later error caused a run in the 9th so it would have been a rare no-hitter with a run scored by the no hit team.
Since Santana actually did give up a hit.....
Add in the combo no-hitter Seattle threw and I guess the juice DID help the hitters, eh?
Did you here the guy that finished off that no hitter was not aware it was a no hitter until the catcher told him after it was over? Priceless.
The Mariner’s starter Kevin Millwood pitched a no hitter on his own in 2003 and was the losing pitcher in Mark Buehrle’s first no hitter in 2007.
It’s interesting the sudden dramatic rise in the number of no nos.
14 in the past 3 seasons including 4 perfectos and there should have been 1 more (Armando Gallaragga, if I were him I’d be eagerly awaiting Bud Selig’s death)
My guess it’s a combo of
1)No more juice
2)Better pitchers than ever before
3)I’m not sure but I think hitters are swinging at more bad pitches, possibly by design to try and hit more homers rather than just put it in play
4)And some randomness
I did not hear that. Wow!!!
Your reasons for the massive increase make sense to me, especially #1.
An AL pitcher would have been resting in the dugout. That's not real baseball.
Amen!
So, was this an interleague game? Interleague games don't count, you know.
Baseball fans who believe that steroids are the cause of every offensive achievement, and lack of steroids are the cause of every pitching achievement, remind me of Republicans who blame every single Republican defeat on Democrat voter fraud. Yeah, Democrats cheat, but that nets them at most 0.5% of the vote. And given that pitchers were just as likely to use steroids as position players, how does “lack of jicing” explain less offense? Oh, and Ryan Braun is having a better year this year than last year, so I guess he’s taking more steroids this year, huh?
A no-hitter is thrown when a pitcher has great stuff that day and gets very lucky. Sure, there were more no-hitters in 1968 than in 1998, but it’s not like there weren’t plenty of no-nos in the 90s and 00s.
And if anything, having a bunch of batters taking steroids may make it more likely that the pitcher will throw a no-hitter, since the batters may be swinging for the fences.
So I don’t think that the higher number of no-hitters (and one-hitters; R.A. Dickey just threw his second straight) this year is evidence of a decline in offense, much less of a decline in steroids use.
Dickey, amazing.
I remember when he as a joke. Then he learned the knuckleball, I’m fan of it so I’m glad there was someone to replace Tim Wakefield.
We had a knuckleballer in White Sox organization who saw big league action, Charlie Haeger.
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