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[Uglyowl]

I went to something rarer than a perfect game... one lost to the 27th batter:

On September 2, 2001, Mike Mussina of the Yankees gave up a two-strike single to Red Sox pinch-hitter Carl Everett.

Although I am a Sox fan, I was rooting hard for him to get it.

[TheNoodleMan]

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I went to something rarer than a perfect game... one lost to the 27th batter:

On September 2, 2001, Mike Mussina of the Yankees gave up a two-strike single to Red Sox pinch-hitter Carl Everett.

Although I am a Sox fan, I was rooting hard for him to get it.

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Carl Everett doesn't believe in perfect games, that and dinosaurs.

[MicroBob]

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Matt Young, 1992, 2-1 Indians.

wiki (bottom)

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Dudd,
I was at this game too as was 2+2 poster Victor.
Man was it freaking cold.

At the time it technically did not count as a no-no.
In the 2nd game, Clemens threw a 2-hitter.
The Indians set a record by only getting 2 hits in a doubleheader yet they still were able to come away with a split.

I also saw a 7-inning no-hitter in the minor-leagues in 96. Joe Atwater of the St. Lucie Mets vs. the Daytona Cubs.
It was the worst no-hitter ever.
Almost every ball the Cubs put in play was an absolute bullet. Lots of great defense behind him. His stuff wasn't really that great.

The pitcher for Daytona in that game threw a 2-hitter and had 12 K's in his 6 innings of work (because St. Lucie did not have to bat in the bottom of the 7th).
He gave a cheapo, bloop HR down the line that was helped by the wind and he lost 1-0.


I made a nice play in little-league at 2B for the final out to preserve our stud's no-hitter. We beat the best team in the league. Our pitcher told a few of the guys that he was going to throw a no-no that night and he stayed true to his word.

[MicroBob]

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I went to something rarer than a perfect game... one lost to the 27th batter:

On September 2, 2001, Mike Mussina of the Yankees gave up a two-strike single to Red Sox pinch-hitter Carl Everett.

Although I am a Sox fan, I was rooting hard for him to get it.

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uglyowl - any proof that it is rarer to lose a perfecto to the 27th batter than it is to actually throw a perfect-game?

Dave Stieb lost a few no-no's in the 9th although I'm not sure if any of them were perfect-games.
We used to call it "throwing a Stieb."

I remember Ron Robinson of the Reds lost his perfecto to the 27th batter in 88. It was against MTL and he was one strike away. Broken up by Wallace Johnson. This was a few months before Tom Browning would throw his perfect game against LA. I know a few people including a couple high-school teachers of mine who were at that game.

I think I've only seen one no-no broken up with 1 out to go.
Ricardo Rodriguez of the Vero Beach Dodgers in 2001 against the Sarasota Red Sox broken up by a player named Jess Graham I believe.
The two teams had played 19 innings until 1:35am the night before and then had to play a 1:00pm game the next day on Sunday so it wasn't too surprising that the batters didn't so hot.

[MicroBob]

I just found it on wiki. Uglyowl is correct.

Only 9 times has a perfecto been lost to the 27th batter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game


* On July 4, 1908, Hooks Wiltse of the New York Giants hit Philadelphia Phillies pitcher George McQuillan in a scoreless game—the only time a 0-0 perfecto has been broken up by the 27th batter. Wiltse pitched on, winning 1-0; his ten-inning no-hitter set a record for longest complete game no-hitter that has been tied twice but never broken.[13]
* On August 5, 1932, Tommy Bridges of the Detroit Tigers gave up a pinch-hit single to Dave Harris in a 13-0 win against the Senators.
* On June 27, 1958, Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox gave up a double, which landed just inches in fair territory, to Washington's Ed Fitzgerald.
* On September 3, 1972, Milt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs walked Padres pinch-hitter Larry Stahl on a borderline 3-2 pitch. Pappas finished with a no-hitter. The umpire was a first-year man, Bruce Froemming, who would go on to umpire in a record 11 no-hitters.[14] A quarter-century later, a Chicago radio personality, during an interview with Pappas, got Froemming on the phone and the two argued on the air.
* On April 15, 1983, Milt Wilcox of the Tigers surrendered a single to White Sox Jerry Hairston.
* On May 2, 1988, Ron Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds gave up a hit to the Expos' Wallace Johnson. Robinson then allowed a two-run homer to Tim Raines and was removed from the game. The final score was 3-2, with Robinson the winner.
* On August 4, 1989, Dave Stieb of the Blue Jays gave up a double to the New York Yankees' Roberto Kelly, followed by an RBI single by Steve Sax. Stieb finished with a 2-1 victory.
* On April 20, 1990, Brian Holman of the Seattle Mariners gave up a home run to Ken Phelps of the Oakland Athletics.
* On September 2, 2001, Mike Mussina of the Yankees gave up a two-strike single to Red Sox pinch-hitter Carl Everett.

[legend42]

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Although I am a Sox fan, I was rooting hard for him to get it.

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Heathen! That was a 1-0 game, and we were still mathematically alive!

[MicroBob]

just remembered a game in Elmira, NY in 2002 in which a pitcher named Justin Stine would have thrown a no-hitter.
But the official scorer changed a 7th or 8th inning error to a hit several minutes later.

In the mior-leagues, it's not uncommon for a manger to offer his input on the scoring decision if they think a grievous mistake has been made and then it's up to the official scorer as to whether to accept the input.

Stine's OWN MANAGER called up to the press-box to say that 3B Osmani Garcia would have needed more than usual effort to field a sharp-ish grounder that hit off his glove.
So it was this pitcher's own manager who essentially took the no-no away from him.

The pitcher himself took it amazingly well and in good spirits having just thrown a terrific game.
I had agreed with the official-scorer that it was probably an error but my personal rooting for this guy to throw the no-no may have been biasing me somewhat.

The 3B himself said he should have been able to field the ball and that he thought it was an error. But he was the type who would always this about himself and pretty much always felt that ANY play he didn't make was his fault.

[legend42]

MicroBob,

That sounds like what happened in an episode of Bay City Blues (anybody else old enough to remember that show?). Were you announcing that game?

[Borgland]

I was at the game that Kent Merker, Mark Wohlers, and Alejandro Pena pitched a combined no hitter against the Padres in 91. The only game I went to that year.

[4 High]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore...?gid=250415121

Only hit should have been an error.