OT - minor league team gets no-hit, wins 7-5
Thr Chattanooga Lookouts found a way to score 7 runs without a hit, defeating the Rocket City Trash Pandas 7-5 in 7 innings in the first half of a doubleheader.
Lots of walks, a few HBPs and a screwed up fly ball all contributed.
Rocket City's starting pitcher threw 6 no-hit innings, then gave way to the bullpen...
https://theathletic.com/4393472/2023/04/08/rocket-city-chattanooga-no-hitter/
That’s mildly interesting
That is such a spectacular fail that it's actually impressive. The odds of that happening?
Name checks out. I imagine the bullpen turtled, a la Minnesota
I think I know who was pitching.
Quinn "Wild Thing" Nordin
"Fo your fucking job!"
Andy Hawkins? As a Yankee he once lost a no-no to the White Sox 4-0.
Yep - but that is technically no longer recognized as a no-hitter (it was considered a no-hitter at the time, but MLB has changed their definition), as CWS was the home team and only batted in 8 innings.
CWS scored all 4 of their runs in the 8th. And all after the first 2 guys popped out! The inning then went E5, walk, walk (based loaded now), Dropped Fly E7 that scored 3, Dropped Fly E9 that scored another, pop-out.
Another odd fact: that game was on a Sunday and it was the then-third no-hitter of the 3-day weekend! It was 2 days after Dave Stewart and Fernando Valenzuela had same-day no-hitters.
One more fact: Hawkins was the Padres' losing pitcher in the Tigers' 1984 World Series clincher.
ROAR OF '84!!
Sorry, I'm still caught up on the name Trash Pandas. I think I've found a new favorite minor league baseball team.
Same. They had to have started as, "The Rocket City Raccoons," right?
I got caught on the 7 innings thing. Was this a little league game? So long as everyone had orange slices and shook hands at the end, let's call this a win.
A double-hitter. They play abbreviated games. So 7 innings. I think the majors do too, at least the 2nd game is 7.
`double post to go with doubleheader.
/apologies
All I'm going to say is...
I guess Rocket City was trash in this game.
I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law one day years ago in Chicagoland. Sunny, summer day, and we had the afternoon free before my evening flight back to Asia. My BIL is a big baseball fan, and the Yankees were playing the White Sox at Comiskey Park, Bat Day, Andy Hawkins versus Greg Hibbard on the mound, respectively. So we got three tickets and sat in the rightfield grandstand.
Hibbard had a perfect game till the sixth (Hawkins perfect through 4-2/3), till Hibbard gave up a couple of infield hits. Then, with 2 outs in the bottom of the eighth, an infield error, a pair of walks, and a couple of dropped fly balls in the outfield gave the White Sox a 4-0 lead, which is how it ended, the Yankees losing 4-0 despite Hawkins' no-hitter. Stunning.
That game was the perfect embodiment of late 80s-early 90s Yankeedom. I remember the Jimmy Leyritz drop as particularly horrifying.
I've been a Yankee fan since '73, so I was there for those years too. The Mel Hall years. Ugly times. It was easy to get tickets though. The Stadium was rarely full.
I was born in '74 so my Yankee childhood was mix of unfulfilled hope, retreads and plain old losers. Bye Bye Balboni to Bam Bam Meulens, Steve Kemp to Melly Mel, Andy Hawkins to Ed Whitson...
My love for the Bronx Zoo Yankees carried me through those times. I watched Reggie hit 3 off 3 pitches on television and actually attended other playoff and World Series games in '77 and '78. It was a looong time between those years and '96. You got there. We got there. We were richly rewarded for sticking it through.
Rewarded with Reggie bars!
And they scored all the runs in the last inning!
One wonders how a team could be so trashy that they give up 7 runs despite allowing no hits, but then you see that they are literally called the Trash Pandas! Must admit that this is a fairly impressive case of collective ineptitude though
April 10th, 2023 at 12:02 AM ^
I wonder if their manager called them Lollygaggers after losing a no-no.
MiLB has the best team names.
I'm really fond of the Sugar Land Space Cowboys myself
Some call them the Gangsters of Love.
April 10th, 2023 at 12:46 PM ^
Some call them Maurice.
I can't believe the emphasis on pitch count over leaving your starter in to complete a no hitter. Are 15 more pitches really going to ruin this kid's next start? Sucks for him that all his hard work didn't even get him a win, let alone a chance to finish a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I know, I know....but get off my grass anyways!!!
April 10th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Nice story, but the real story here is that there is a team called the "Trash Pandas". That is the best team name ever.
Tigers no hit by Orioles but win game 2-1.