One Walk? Meh.
Sincerely,
Don Larsen
So Halladay threw a no-hitter? This morning the ESPN headline said one-hitter.
Damn, that’s impressive.
Including Wednesday’s games, there have been 1,263 postseason games. Two no-hitters in 1,263 games is 0.158 percent. (ESPN says it’s 1,265 games, but it’s close enough.) Based on this Yahoo answers page, I figured there have been about 177,214 regular season games played. With 266 no hitters, that’s 0.15 percent. So they are essentially equal, at least by my math.
Really? Last night at about 10:30, it was all no-hitter this and no-hitter that…
Joe
Ahh, a good theory destroyed by rounding error, yet again!
Using the number that I heard quoted, there have only been 220 no-hitters in the regular reason. Applying that the games total, the result is 0.124% for the regular season.
Well, now you’ll have to aim for being in the third row for a no-hit no-walk Vet stadium game. That’s the mark of a real Phillies fan. 
Hmm. I see there are 42 recognized no-hitters prior to 1900. That’s often considered before the “modern era,” so they may not have been counted. (Bad luck for Bumpus Jones and Cannonball Titcomb.) My games figure only goes back to 1900, so we shouldn’t count the pre-1900 no-hitters.
I read it this morning on iGoogle. Perhaps their RSS feed got messed up.
An error doesn’t break up a no-hitter, right? So flubbing an easy fly ball, of Ruiz throwing it 20 feet over the first baseman’s head shouldn’t ruin the no-hitter (in Ruiz’s hypothetical case, a scorer could go either way; that wasn’t a complete gimme).
Second, I’ll note that it’s rare, but not unheard of, for one player to have more hits (and RBIs) than the entire other team. It’s pretty rare for that one player to be the pitcher, though. Any hope for stats on that? (NL only, obviously)
At least 2 Astros have done it (the hits part, anyway): Mike Scott, to clinch the division, September 25, 1986, and Nolan Ryan, September 26, 1981.
If Ruiz had missed the throw, an official scorer would have had a hell of time deciding if that was a error or clean base hit. I’ve seen those go both ways. More often than not a hit was granted, but with the circumstances the way they were last night…maybe not.
Big props to Halladay for this accomplishment, and to the Phillies for an awesome win.
Twern’t with the Fightin’s though. Actually it was before he came to the Phillies.
Interestingly enough, I missed watching Millwood’s no-hitter because I was covering a shift at work for someone who got last-minute tickets to the game. Still pisses me off.
Another bit of anecdotal evidence: Rick Wise of the Phils not only no-hit the Reds 4-0 in 1971, he hit two homers and knocked in three in the game too.