Just think about that - Ryan holds the record with 7 no-hitters. There are teams without that many no-hitters in their history! One guy, in 27 years of pitching, racked up more no-hitters than entire teams. The Angels have 7 no-hitters as a team and 4 of them are Ryan’s. The Tigers only have 5 no-hitters, the Royals have 4, the Twins have 6 (going back to Walter Johnson when they were known as the Senators), etc.
IIRC, Ryan was also 43 when he pitched that 7th no-hitter, setting another record as the oldest person to pitch a no-hitter. Sandy Koufax is #2 on the list with 4 no-hitters. Does anyone else have more than 2?
If he ends the season on that number, I wonder how many yahoos are going to bring up McGwire’s homer that got called back in '98 due to (what the umpire said) fan interference. Now that Bonds has broken the record, I’d like to see him hit 72 so no one can lessen Bonds’s feat by bringing that up.
Okay, maybe I was a little harsh. Still, I can’t but help but be miffed everytime someone gets unfairly shut out. What, adding a couple pages to the sports section for a once-in-a-lifetime event is too much to ask?
And as far as McGwire’s walk record goes, I remember there being two major leagues. So Bonds did, in fact, break a 78 year old record held by Babe Ruth. Saw it on ESPN. You got beef, take it up with them.
Sheesh, and I thought the NFL Predictions people were high-strung. I’m outta here…
…oh, and congratulations to Barry Bonds for setting TWO season records. Whatever you think of his personality, this is a remarkable accomplishment.
Barry did it. You might think that I, who practically bleed orange and black, would be ecstatic. But I’m not. The Giants were eliminated from contention last night. I would trade every single one of those home runs for a World Series win. And I think Barry would, too.
I started following the Giants seriously when I was eight, in 1987. They won the NL West that year, but lost to the Cardinals in the NLCS, beginning a fifteen-year long streak of Breaking Kyla’s Heart. Every year, they manage to do it in new and interesting ways, like getting swept in a World Series no one remembers for the baseball, being sold to Tampa Bay, winning 103 games and not making the playoffs, or hey, that time they had the best record in the majors only to fall apart in the first round of the NLDS. Those all hurt. I am really amazed at the one they pulled off this year, though. I got to watch one of the best personal seasons in the history of baseball, but at the end, it’s that familiar sinking feeling of knowing that once again, this is not The Year. I’m supposed to be happy, I guess, but I’m actually near tears. Back to waiting til next year.
