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Do you know what Reds’ pitcher came within an out of duplicating Johnny Vander Meer’s double-no-hit feat?

Who broke it up?

What was odd about it?

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I know it was Ewell Blackwell but I do not know the oddity.

Here is audio of the 9th inning:

http://www.espn1530.com/player/?mid=22486884

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Blackwell pitched a 6-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves at Crosley Field on June 18, 1947, then in his next start had a no-hit game going against the Dodgers at Cincinnati on June 22, until Brooklyn’s Eddie Stanky hit a broken-bat single through the pitcher’s legs with one out in the ninth inning. Jackie Robinson later had another single and Blackwell emerged with a 4-0, two-hit victory.

Vander Meer, still with the Reds, was in the dugout watching Blackwell.

‘’I was up on the top step,’’ Vander Meer would remember. ‘’I wanted to be the first one out there to congratulate him.’’

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/31/sports/ewell-blackwell-pitcher-74-noted-for-his-whip-like-style.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm