DickGernert#1
08-28-2006, 03:24 PM
Can someone name a pitcher who pitched a no-hitter but still lost the game?
DickGernert#1
08-28-2006, 03:38 PM
:clapping That's one, anybody know another one?:noidea
Padday
08-28-2006, 03:46 PM
Andy Hawkins lost 4-0 with a no-hitter for the Yankees against the White Sox.
Matt Young lost 2-1 with a no-hitter for the Red Sox against Cleveland.
Erik Bedard
08-28-2006, 05:14 PM
Augh, Padday took mine.
Honorable mention to Harvey Haddix.
Honus Wagner
08-28-2006, 05:29 PM
In 1991, led by Faye Vincent, the Committee for Statistical Accuracy erased 50 no-hitters from the records books. The rule states that a no-hitter is a complete game of 9 innings or more. Hawkins and Young's no-hitters were erased.
Honus Wagner
08-28-2006, 05:30 PM
On four occasions, however, the no-hit team actually scored enough runs to win the game.
First, Houston's Ken Johnson no-hit Cincinnati for nine innings in 1964 but lost, 1-0. In 1967, Baltimore's Steve Barber and Stu Miller combined to no-hit the Tigers yet also lost, 2-1, in nine innings. On this day the anomaly was stretched to the limits of believability as the Yankees' Andy Hawkins entered the eighth inning of a scoreless no-hitter in Chicago and emerged with his no-hitter intact yet with his team trailing 4-0. When New York failed to score in the top of the ninth, the game became the most lopsided no-hit defeat in history. (A fourth occasion involved the BoSox' Matt Young losing to Cleveland, 2-1, in nine innings during 1992.)
At the time, Hawkins was credited with a no-hitter, and went into baseball annals as the losing pitcher in a complete-game no-hitter. But a subsequent major league scoring council changed that ruling. In September of 1991, an eight-man committee for "statistical accuracy," chaired by then Commissioner Fay Vincent, decreed that nearly 50 past no-hitters were really not no-hitters. Stricken from the No-Hit Hall of Fame were games called after five, six, seven, eight, or eight and one-half innings for whatever reason. Also eliminated from the no-hit list were the ill-fated who pitched at least nine innings of hitless ball but were reached safely in extra innings. Swept beneath the no-hit pedestal was the Harvey Haddix masterpiece along with 11 other moundsmen who labored at least nine innings without allowing a safety. Fans are now asked to forget that Hawkins, and later Matt Young, who pitched in completed nine-inning games, were hurling for visiting clubs, and that the winning home team didn't even have an opportunity to bat in the ninth.