Johnny Vander Meer's record

[Mark17]

Here's an interesting trivia question I stumbled upon. After Johnny tossed his 2 consecutive no hitters, one of his teammates came within 2 outs of doing the same thing, with Johnny in the ballpark. Who was he?

[egri]

Ewell Blackwell?

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by egri

Ewell Blackwell?

Yes. I'm reading Red Barber's book about the 1947 season and he mentioned it. With one out in the ninth, Stanky hit a grounder back through the box and Ewell, who was a pretty tall fellow, didn't quite get his glove down low enough to stop it.

[clydepepper]

Virgil Trucks went 5-20 in 1952 with 2 no-hitters, though they weren't in a row.

Max Scherzer came very close to two consecutive perfect games.


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[Jim65]

RA Dickey pitched back to back one hitters in 2012.

[mcgwirecom]

Dave Stieb pitched back to back one hitters in 1988. He lost both with 2 outs in the 9th!

The bottom ticket is from the following year when he lost a Perfect Game with 2 out in the 9th!