Now that the original scorer's decision has been upheld, will this be a more famous or less famous pitching performance than if he'd been charged an error in the first place (and thus ended up with a no-hitter)?
I claim that this game will have been more famous, and as evidence I ask you:
Can you name the last two pitchers to throw MLB no-hitters? You probably can't, unless you're a fan of the team they both play[ed] for.
How many of the last five can you name? (Randy Johnson's perfect game was only the sixth-most-recent.)
Before you look it up, how many of the 12 no-hitters this decade can you describe reasonably well? (Or if you prefer, 15 in the past ten years -- the David Wells perfect game would miss that cutoff by about 3.5 months.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at September 3, 2008 05:26 PM