TRIVIA ?....Name 4 players involved in 17 2/3 innings of NO-HIT ball....

[tedzan]

HINT....there have been many No-Hit (or near NO-HIT) games in BB; but, only these 4 guys experienced
what most would say....were the most exciting of all.

Identify the events and who are the 4 players ? ?


TED Z

[Bill Stone]

I am smiling because it made me recall that Fred Toney of Winchester pitched a 17 inning no hitter in the Blue Grass League in 1909. You T210 Series 6 fans will appreciate this .

[Reginald Marsh]

Were the batters blind?

[Ladder7]

It's now called "visually impaired" for cripes sake.

[Matt]

Dunno the answer, but on a related note, the glove used in the game by the pitcher of a 15 inning no hitter is up for auction currently.

[FrankWakefield]

I believe Ted is asking about something other than what happened in the Blue Grass League about 100 years ago... but here's Tony's T210

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Here's his sig!

[tedzan]

FRANK W

You are are correct.....the answer(s) to this quiz do not pertain to anything that happened 100 years ago in the Minor Leagues.

As an astute student of the BaseBall scene, that you are, I'll be surprised if you don't come up with the names of these players.


TED Z

[FrankWakefield]

I'll try to read up a bit and figure this one out...

It could be Vander Meer's back to back no hitters in 1938; but what I think it is would be a game where both pitchers had no hitters going until the bottom of the ninth, when a run scored. Did Joss win a no hitter against Walsh that way in 1908? Help!!

[canjond]

What's even more impressive of VanderMeer is he worked 21 2/3 no-hit innings counting the games before and after his two no-hitters. Now, if that isn't impressive enough in it's own right, I had the occasion to work a show with Johnny right before his death. He told me that his streak would have run to nearly 27 inning showever a play originally ruled an error was changed to a hit, thereby stopping the streak at 21 2/3 innings.

[tedzan]

You both have good answers and you might add Allie Reynolds of the Yankees to this mix.....as Reynolds (like Vander Meer)
pitched consecutive No-Hitters. Reynolds accomplished this feat in 1951.

However, these 2 guys are not exactly the answers that I'm looking for on this quiz. And, as exciting as their back-to-back
No-Hit games were, try to think of a higher level of excitement.

And, I think you will arrive at the 4 players that I'm looking for.


TED Z

[Rich Klein]

[QUOTE=tedzan;745782]You both have good answers and you might add Allie Reynolds of the Yankees to this mix.....as Reynolds (like Vander Meer)
pitched consecutive No-Hitters. Reynolds accomplished this feat in 1951.

When exactly did the Chief pitch consecutive no-hitters?

Rich

[barrysloate]

He pitched two in 1951, with many games in between...Ted, I wish I understood the question.

[tedzan]

Allie Reynolds did not pitch consecutive No-Hitters....here what he did in the 1951 season......

July 12, 1951 vs Cleveland

Sept 28, 1951 vs Boston


You got me, Rich......anyhow, I am really surprised that you have not got the answers to my original quiz here ? ?


TED Z

[barrysloate]

Ted- could you rephrase the question so it is a little clearer? It's the four guys involved that have me confused. Thank you.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I am also a little foggy on what exaclty you're after, Ted, but can I guess in the dark? Do Virgil Trucks or Nolan Ryan have anything to do with this? This all seems to stem from guys who hurled two no-hitters in a season.

[tedzan]

You are focusing on the 4 guys too much. The 17 2/3rds no-hit innings are the real clue.

TED Z

[barrysloate]

I'm thinking a very long extra inning game where there wasn't a hit in the middle 17 2/3 innings. Am I getting warm?

[Butch7999]

Haddix and Burdette and their battery-mates in that game and their respective games preceding?

[tedzan]

It's not about guys who hurled two no-hitters in a season.

Frank's and Jon's responses regarding Vander Meer certainly fell within the realm of the original question; therefore,
I couldn't discount their answer.

But, it was not exactly what I'm looking for here.


TED Z

[Rich Klein]

But I don't remember the exact circumstances of the game. IIRC; it's a really cool question

Rich

[barrysloate]

I got nothing here.

[barrysloate]

Didn't Hal Newhouser miss back to back no-hitters by one out, thus the 17 2/3 innings?

[Butch7999]

Wait, was Bill on the right track with Toney? Didn't Toney and Jim Vaughn throw dueling no-hitters in a 1917 major league game?

[barrysloate]

They did, until the 10th inning. But that would take it to at least 18 innings combined, so that's probably not the answer.

[Anthony S.]

Are we talking about the 26 inning game between the Dodgers and Braves in 1920? Both Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger went 26 innings. Were there 17 and 2/3 innings of no hit ball in the middle of that game?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I thought about the 26-inning game, too, but wasn't sure that was what Ted was after.

[Anthony S.]

Here goes:

Gibson, Perry, Bolin, and Washburn.

From when the Giants and Cardinals threw back-to-back no hitters against each other in September of 1968. Is that it?

[FrankWakefield]

I'm wondering about O'Niell, Browning, Wells, and Cone...

Or maybe October 5th, 1907, rube Vickers of the A's pitched 5 perfect innings against the Senators; this was the second inning of a double header. In the first game, that lasted 15 innings, Vickers had pitched the last 12 innings, and he got both wins, his only 2 victories of the 1907 season.


Or, on July 4, 1908, New York Giant Hooks Wiltse hit pitcher George McQuillan of the Philadelphia Phillies with the count 2 and 2 in a scoreless game—the only time a 0–0 perfect game has been broken up by the 27th batter. Umpire Cy Rigler later admitted that he should have called the previous pitch strike 3, which would have ended the game. Wiltse pitched on, winning 1-0; his ten-inning no-hitter set a record for longest complete game no-hitter that has been tied twice but never broken.

Or what about that Ruth / Shore game, was that a 1-0 game?

[tedzan]

OK, you guys are all over the place, and that's actually not bad since many more events are brought to light.

So, I have to relent and throw in a hint......

One of the four players involved in this scenario(s) is Jackie Robinson.


TED Z

[paul]

Is this a contest to see who knows baseball trivia? Or who knows how to read Ted's mind?

[FrankWakefield]

Berra, Reese, Robinson, and Furillo...

Each were in the games in 1947 and 1956 World Series.... Bevens' near miss, and Larson's complete deal.

[tedzan]

Frank....didn't I predict that you would get it ?

I formed this one from Yogi's new book...."Team Work".

As you know Yogi spent a good amount of his time playing LF in 1947. But, Bucky Harris had enough
confidence in Yogi to have him catch Bill Bevens' World Series 8 2/3 rds innings no-hitter.

And, as we all know, Yogi caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 W.S.
Yogi was the only Yankee to be in both these exciting W.S. games.

And, as Frank said....Jackie, Pee Wee and Carl Furillo were also in both W.S. games.

Great going guys,

TED Z