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1. ShoeGrit Posted: May 03, 2012 at 05:39 AM (#4122340)What a great pitcher.
He struck out twice in each at bat.
But things got really bad when he grounded into a double play leading off an inning.
When Jonathan Sanchez threw his, wasn't it the first time his father had seen him pitch in the majors?
Down the road, the Angels just got their 10th no-hitter. This came from a #1 pick they drafted, developed, and held onto.
Big day in baseball history for the LA area, and I'm stunned this hasn't turned into a Mets thread yet.
As for Colon, he gave up two hits in that stretch. That's pretty impressive, but it's not dominant. I'd venture to guess that a just about every pitcher in baseball could through 38 strikes in a row if they were actually trying to throw 38 strikes in a row. Presumably at some point Colon wasn't trying to throw the ball in the strike zone and needed some help. There's a lot more dumb luck involved in that. It's a fun stat, but that's about it.
He's pretty much right, though. No-hitters are flukes, and it's hard to see what's so exciting about them. Weaver walked a guy. And another reached on a passed-ball strikeout. Why does giving up a hit ruin everything, but giving up a walk does not?
You know, after getting laid, he'd just say the same thing:
According to BBRef there have been 8,749 complete games of 9 or more inning without a walk issued since 1918.
There have been 176 no hitters.
I'm a robot and even I get that.
Games that match Ray's reversal (CG, 1 hit, 0 BB, 2 or less base runners): 111
That's what they always say- "There's no I in Torii."
Is there a list of these? I think B.Y. Kim and Pedro did it semi-recently.
After what just happened to Junior Seau, perhaps Hunter could have instead talked about carrying blocks of ice up several flights of stairs?
There have been 176 no hitters.
There have been 131 one hitters with no walks from 1918 to 2012. There have been 160 CG no hitters with at least one walk since 1918.
To further it there have been 86 games in which a pitcher gave up a hit and no walks and the hit was a single.
Matt Cain was the last to do it on April 13th.
This is one of those times where you look at the schedule and say WTF? This will be the third time the Angels play the Twins, and finish the season series against them before playing a single game vs. Texas or Seattle.
Yes yes need to get laid. Grow up.
The Twins have played ONE series against an AL Central opponent yet will have played the entire AL East and the Angels in three different series by the end of next week. Bizarre.
That is not because it requires less skill, but because it requires a lot less cooperation from the environment (weather, fielding, turf, sheer dumb luck, etc.) I am still more impressed with the latter, personally.
the no hitter was really exciting. But I found myself almost as happy about the CG since we get points for CGs and they are the hardest category to find.
Congrats on the no hitter and the winning streak. Now get back to losing 4 in a row until Weaver wins again next time he takes the hill.
Hell, I'll take a concussion and missing 5-10 days of work if it means seeing a no-hitter.
Does your entire family share your soulless, robotic tendencies? Just curious.
Weaver's a stud. Great accomplishment last night.
I remember watching Kirk Gibson's home run in the 1988 World Series, yawning, and muttering "Small sample size."
I got Red Sox season tickets in 2001. The Sox have thrown four (or five*) no hitters since and I have not attended a single one.**
* - depending on if you count Devern Hansack's five inning no-no on the last day of the 2006 season. I do, MLB does not.
** - I was at the Hansack game but I left. My brother and I had gone in early and grabbed something to eat then waited around on a dreary day. There was a 3 1/2 hour rain delay at the start and we figured they'd never get the game in so we just bailed.
I have Jered Weaver, Carlos Beltran and Chipper Jones. Last night was a very nice night.
Why were you up so late watching an exhibition game?
I was one of maybe five Reds fans at the Halladay LDS no-hitter. It was a weird, painful yet pleasurable experience.
In every Jered start I think a no-hitter is a possibility*, so it was very exciting to see it finally come true.
*This isn't just fanboyism. He has a lot of traits that make a no-hitter more likely: he's a strikeout pitcher; he's an extreme flyball pitcher, so his BABIP is lower than average; he pitches in a home park that is very forgiving to flyballs; he has an OF behind him that is excellent defensively.
Also, in his home games his release point lines up with the rock fountain.
i was watching, kind of to see if pujols was going to start coming out of his funk. he got a hit, i think in the fourth or something, then i was sort of watching, sort of dozing off. i knew weaver had not allowed a hit, but i just ... forgot. i turned off the tv and went to bed, and when i turned on MLB this morning over coffee there's weaver jumping up and down. sheesh.
The hell it was. I have A.J. Burnett, & I actually thought about sitting him. But nooooooooooo ...
(*sigh* That one probably belongs in the "Worst call of the MLB season so far?" thread.)
Only by some guy who pitched, IIRC, a 7-inning version vs. the hometown Arkansas Travelers back in the mid-'90s. Pretty neat, even so.
...for baseball fans. Three "save the ticket stub" kind of games in LA, Atlanta, and D.C. Most thrilling night overall so far this year.
As an aside, it was Tim Raines' birthday and he homered twice. The roof was open but after he hit his second HR it started to pour and they had to close the roof while the game was going on. That was cool to watch.
Hah! Lester threw 130 in his no-no as well.
I just don’t get all the fanfare. I really don’t. Sure, sexual intercourse is fun to do. I’m talking about women screaming out the name of the Lord and people sweating and lighting cigarettes. That kind of reaction is just not commensurate with the accomplishment in my opinion.
Getting a handjob in a train station waiting room is less likely than sexual intercourse. I didn’t see anyone jumping around with that. You can come up with all kinds of goofy “activities” that are reflective of a good sexual experience and lots of luck, like intercourse. Big deal.
I was at David Wells' perfect game, and the fans were pathetic. Most of the fans in our section left well before the game ended, and seemed to be there primarily because there was a Beanie Baby giveaway.
I have to guess that they had already planned the bobblehead night and ordered the merchandise - they just got lucky on this.
I threw one in Little League, does that count? I guess not, but as far as experiences go, I'd take that a hundred times over watching someone else throw one, no matter the level.
I caught a no hitter in slow-pitch softball. A softball no-hitter has to be waaaaaaay rarer than an MLB one.
Anyhow, congrats to Jered. As fluky or less impressive as other accomplishments as it may be, a no-hitter is pretty special and it clearly meant a lot to him to do it at home in front of Angels fans and his family.
As for MGL, like others, I disagree with him but am unsurprised at this point. For stats type analysis, I'll read what he has to say. For anything about the soul of the game or the human experience, I doubt I'll be looking to him for answers.
I also remember watching Halladay's perfect game against the Marlins on my iPhone while at a Braves game - just watching the last couple innings of that one was cool.
Ooooh. How did that happen?
This is crazy town right here... no-hitters are not flukes relative to your garden variety game. They are flukes, perhaps, relative to 1-hitters or even 2-hitters, but let's not pretend that this isn't an amazing achievement and excellent baseball performance.
If you are talking about AJ Burnett or Edwin Jackson, I agree.
I was at Schilling's 26-out no-no that was broken up iirc by Jay Payton with 2 down in the 9th in Oakland.
Count me down as someone else dying to know how a slow-pitch softball no-hitter is done. 21 consecutive at-em balls??
I was also at that game, went with my now-wife, up in the left field stands. The tickets were a early birthday gift from a friend; one of the best presents I ever got. I usually keep track of these types of things from the first moment, but I didn't notice he hadn't given up a hit until the 5th inning. The 9th inning was the loudest I've ever heard Fenway before (didn't attend playoff games in 2004 and 2007, but it was louder than the 1999 and 2008 playoff losses I went to) -- I completely agree with your excitement assessment.
Hey, ditto!
That was a great day to play hooky from work.
I've seen slow-pitch no-hitters through three or four innings, but nothing close to all seven innings.
Maybe a slow-pitch 7-inning shutout is comparably rare to a major-league baseball no-hitter.
In the end it was the best gift I've ever given her because, 13 years later, she still uses it as one of the main examples of how I'm an idiot.
I was at a game when Dwight Gooden had a no-hitter broken up in the 8th inning. That was fun.
I was at Gooden's 1996 no-no. It was really thrilling--as others here have said, in a very unusual way. (It's odd when the home crowd is rooting for its team's offense to get off the field.) Went on a last-minute whim with two guys from my then-office, one of whom somehow didn't figure out a no-hitter was going on until the eighth inning or something. The other two of us were smirking at him for several innings.
I was also at one of Gooden's 16-K games with the Mets, though I can't figure out which one. Thought it was against the Phillies, but I don't remember it being a game he lost. Ah, dead brain cells, how I miss you...
Neither are the game I'm most grateful to have attended, though. (That'd be Buckner.)
Ooooh. How did that happen?
No idea. It's not like I was calling great pitch sequences, and he kept hitting the corners :-)
Just lots of impatient batters, weak contact, and balls hit right at people. He did walk a few people, so maybe he was just effectively wild, and the impatience of the hitters doomed them.
To get no-hit... man, that stings.
He's really trying to become the poster boy for the stathead stereotype.
To get no-hit... man, that stings.
Yeah, they were not pleased.
Thinking back, part of it may have been that it was a modified fast pitch league (throw as hard as you want, but no windup), but our guy threw really high lob style (the league was about 60:40 fast pitchers vs. lob, and some teams had College women who could throw HARD).
At least it wasn't a blow-out; I think it was 4-0.
It was a weird, painful yet pleasurable experience.
This is also what MGL would say after getting laid.
And then
is impressive. Clearly MGL, you were nowhere near as excited as Jered Weaver's teammates were.
Anyway, as a Mets fan I have never been to a no-hitter. The closest I have been to is seeing this game, in which Glendon Rusch and Armando Benitez combined for a one-hitter. The only hit was a first-inning bunt by Trot Nixon on which Lenny Harris (playing first base!) made an error, but it was ruled a hit + error. Nixon was just trying to sacrifice over Chris Stynes, who had also reached base on an error by Harris. Just another one of many reasons why you don't start Lenny Harris at first base.
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