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New York Mets (2x World Series Champions)

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my grandmother's first cousin, Don Black, pitched the first no-hitter at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. true story. i love that anecdote.

52 years with no no-hitters seems crazy, until you realize that there have only been something like 275 in baseball history, with upwards of 350 THOUSAND major league games played since 1900.
 
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lvbuckeye;2161635; said:
my grandmother's first cousin, Don Black, pitched the first no-hitter at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. true story. i love that anecdote.

52 years with no no-hitters seems crazy, until you realize that there have only been something like 275 in baseball history, with upwards of 350 THOUSAND major league games played since 1900.
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and Johnny Vander Meer threw 2 in a row.
 
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Jaxbuck;2161641; said:
and Johnny Vander Meer threw 2 in a row.
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Another rarely mentioned oddity is the back-to-back no hitters by opposing teams. The Reds Jim Maloney no hit the Astros on April 30 1969 at Crosley, then the following day Houston's Don Wilson no hit the Reds at the Astrodome. What's really bizarre is that that had actually happened before the previous year when Gaylord Perry and Ray Washburn threw no hitters against each others' teams in consecutive games.
 
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RA Dickey threw a one-hitter tonight for the Mets. The one it was a chopper by BJ Upton that David Wright could not get the handle on. Upton is a fast runner and it was a tough play. The barehander was the only shot that they had and he couldn't quite do it. It was a base hit all the way. The Mets though are going to appeal the scoring decision and say that it should've been an error and a no-hitter by Dickey. Not only does this make them look like petty bitches, but in the process they're also throwing their franchise player, Wright, under the bus by saying he should've had an error. It also reeks of hypocrisy given the circumstances of Santana's no-hitter. If the Mets are going to play this game, I wouldn't have a problem at all with the Cardinals doing the same thing on the disputed play from Santana's game.

The funniest part was, after the game the Mets manager said, "if anybody deserves to have a no-hitter tonight it was that guy (Dickey)." I think Matt Cain had something to say about that. :lol:
 
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Stop me if you've heard this one, but RA Dickey threw a 1-hitter for the Mets tonight. Over his last five outings:

41.2 IP, 16 H, 5 BB, 52 K, 1 R.

On top of that, he's thrown three complete games and his highest pitch count came tonight when he finished at 114. These numbers are absurd.
 
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Dryden;2168215; said:
Stop me if you've heard this one, but RA Dickey threw a 1-hitter for the Mets tonight. Over his last five outings:

41.2 IP, 16 H, 5 BB, 52 K, 1 R.

On top of that, he's thrown three complete games and his highest pitch count came tonight when he finished at 114. These numbers are absurd.
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Dryden;2168215; said:
Stop me if you've heard this one, but RA Dickey threw a 1-hitter for the Mets tonight. Over his last five outings:

41.2 IP, 16 H, 5 BB, 52 K, 1 R.

On top of that, he's thrown three complete games and his highest pitch count came tonight when he finished at 114. These numbers are absurd.
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And he throws a knuckle ball, that makes his numbers even more crazy.
 
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Dryden;2168215; said:
Stop me if you've heard this one, but RA Dickey threw a 1-hitter for the Mets tonight. Over his last five outings:

41.2 IP, 16 H, 5 BB, 52 K, 1 R.

On top of that, he's thrown three complete games and his highest pitch count came tonight when he finished at 114. These numbers are absurd.
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That's a pretty good run. Knuckleballers can go on streaks like that but on the days that the knuckle ball ain't knuckling it's an early shower.
 
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http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/sto...ckey-thanks-buck-showalter-helping-find-pitch

Arguably, Dickey has reinvented not only himself but also the knuckleball. He seemingly has pinpoint control of where it flutters in the strike zone, unlike his knuckleball predecessors. That's an overly dramatic assertion, according to Dickey. The statistics, calculated by the Elias Sports Bureau, are incredible nonetheless:

Dickey became the first major leaguer since Toronto's Dave Stieb in 1988 with consecutive one-hitters and the first in the NL since Jim Tobin with the Boston Braves in 1944.

He has won nine straight decisions, the longest streak by a Met since Johan Santana won 10 straight spanning 2008 and '09.

Already the owner of the franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings at 32 2/3, Dickey has held opponents without an earned run for 42 2/3 innings. The franchise record is 49 innings by Dwight Gooden in 1985.

Dickey also is the fastest pitcher in franchise history to 10 games over .500, requiring 68 Mets games. That topped Tom Seaver, who moved to 13-3 in Game No. 77 of the 1969 season.

Reflecting on his 2006 knuckleball versus today, Dickey said: "It was a different thing altogether. I was throwing it much slower. I was trying to be Tim Wakefield or Charlie Hough. I was really implementing my own personality with the pitch. And, as I've grown as a pitcher, I've done that. I know I have something to offer that's unique, and I try to build off that.
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