Comments on: A complete rundown of post-perfecto performances

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:09:51 +0000

Sweet. Thanks for the info.

By: Lukehart80

Lukehart80 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:37:01 +0000

Buehrle was roughed up in his next few starts after his perfect game, but in that first game, he actually stayed flawless through 5 innings, the deepest anyone’s ever taken an attempted second consecutive perfect game.

In the process, he set the record for most consecutive batters retired (with 45).

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:37:05 +0000

Mark Buehrle pitched poorly after his perfect game in July, 2009.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=buehrma01&t=p&year=2009

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:22:12 +0000

And all praises to Retrosheet.org and those who support them. They’ve got no-hitter boxscores back to 1918.
http://www.retrosheet.org/nohit_chrono.htm

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:06:51 +0000

Bo Belinsky
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAA/LAA196205050.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS196206260.shtml
Bonus points for having the same home plate umpire, Harry Schwarts, in both games.

Sal Maglie
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BRO/BRO195609250.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA195610080.shtml
You’ve probably heard about one of these.

Bob Feller
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE195107011.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE195107120.shtml
Feller allowed a run in his no-hitter, partially due to his errant pick-off throw.

Bill McCahan
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE194707101.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHA/PHA194709030.shtml
Eddie Rommel, a damn fine pitcher in his own time (and that’s a long story), umpired the first of these games.

Jim Tobin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BSN/BSN194404270.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN194405150.shtml

So six. Two Hall of Famers, one HOVGer, one who could have been a character in in L.A. Confidential if it was set a little later, and two guys I’ve never heard of.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:01:10 +0000

Honorable mention to David Cone for sucking a solid year after his perfecto.

By: Chipmaker

Chipmaker — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:37:02 +0000

(Copy of my comment to Lukehart’s article, slightly edited to avoid personal grammatical embarrassments.)

We don’t have box scores at BR.com or Retrosheet yet, but we do have the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper database — and reviewing early May 1904 lets us find Young’s next game. It was a doozy.

After his perfecto on 5/5, Boston beat New York, 5-2, on 5/6 behind Tannehill; lost on 5/7, 6-3, with Dineen on the mound; didn’t play on 5/8 and 5/9; and lost to NY one more time, 2-1, behind Gibson.

Young next pitched, at home, against Detroit on 5/11. Boston won the game, 1-0, with Young going the distance — a full fifteen innings. He didn’t allow a hit until there was one out in the seventh.

Reviewing a box score, rather primitive to what we enjoy today, Young’s line appears to be 15 IP, 5 H, zero R, zero ER (a shutout makes this easy), 5 walks, and 5 strikeouts. That would yield a game score of 107.

Nice follow-up.

Game story: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1904-05-12/ed-1/seq-13/

Box, such as they were at the time: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059523/1904-05-12/ed-1/seq-5/

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:22:52 +0000

Juan Marichal.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196305110.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196306150.shtml

I should have guessed this hours ago. Alvin Dark always matched him up against Koufax.

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:53:02 +0000

149 pitches, 8 walks, a hit batter, and a wild pitch. Except for the BABIP, a pretty typical day in the office for E-Jack.

Randy Johnson, Kevin Millwood, and Bob Milacki (!) have also won and lost no-hitters, but not in the same season.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:13:22 +0000

Interesting. Like a passing of the torch of sorts. Edwin Jackson’s was the one with about 200 pitches and 43 walks, right?**

(**May be slight exaggeration**)

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:04:03 +0000

I haven’t found any in the same season, but Edwin Jackson threw a no-hitter in 2010 and was the losing pitcher in Francisco Liriano’s 2011 no-hitter.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:35:08 +0000

Yeah, but how many no-hitter throwing pitchers are no-hit during the same season? Almost happened to Doc and the Phightins in 2010. The Phils eventually beat the Reds in that one in extras.