This is not true. A batted ball that strikes a bird remains live and in play. A pitched ball that strikes a bird is ruled “no pitch”.
July 4 (5), 1985. Bottom of the 18th inning, Mets leading the Braves 11-10. 2 outs, one of the worst hitting pitchers in baseball - and one who had never hit a home run in his career - at the plate and an 0-2 count. Kid who foolishly stayed up most of the night following the game thinks it will finally end and he’ll go to sleep. Pitcher hits a home run to tie it, and the game goes on …
Oops. Sorry :o
Except that it happened in an Exhibition Game during spring training in Arizona, so it doesn’t count. Except to the poor bird’s family, of course. 
There have been three MLB players named Randy Johnson and they all played in the 1980s.
By pitching a scoreless 8th inning in the Giants 12-4 loss to Cincinnati today, Pablo Sandoval became the second player in modern MLB history (Since 1900) with a home run, a stolen base, and scoreless pitching outing in the same game.
The other player to do so was Christy Mathewson, who pitched a shutout on May 23, 1905…also playing for the (NY) Giants…and also against the Reds.
But Pablo also hit a batter, so he’s got that going for him…
Hideo Nomo’s record of total number of no-hitters thrown at Coors Field (one) will never be broken.
I personally witnessed Canseco do the exact same thing at Yankee Stadium, while shagging fly balls during batting practice. The ball bounced off his head and into the stands. He, again, was completely unfazed. Despite his checkered history, he was a fun-loving guy. He laughed when I yelled, “Save it for the game!”
Dave Stieb lost no-hitters with two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the ninth in 1988.
In back-to-back starts.
This, too, has happened. It’s at 0:14 in this video.
The rules of baseball provide the possibility of 4 outs in an inning under some extremely unlikely circumstance (the runner from third leaves too early and crosses home before the third out is scored and they appeal). Do any of you know if it has ever happened in MLB ? That would be pretty unlikely.
There have been only two game-ending unassisted triple plays in major league history. I saw one of them in 2009. My son was there and he had already seen another game-ending triple play of which there have been fewer than in major league history and he has seen two of them. The other one was 5-4-3 and it was in early Sept. 1991 in Montreal 6 days before a 55 ton concrete chunk fell off the Olympic Stadium.
Baseball reference recounts a single instance in MLB history where it could have happened, had the defence appealed. I conclude that means that it has never occurred.
(I’m actually surprised at the scenario given there – I thought that tagging following a fly out was like a force play and could wipe out a run even if the out was made after the run scored).
I mentioned this in another baseball thread recently, but it deserves recognition as an play unlikely ever to be repeated.
Bottom of the 10th inning, 1989 Reds-Phillies game, winning run for the Phils on second (speedy runner). Lenny Dykstra lines a single into right field. The Reds’ Paul O’Neill charges the ball to make a play at the plate, muffs it, grabs desperately for the ball, juggles and drops it, and in frustration at botching a potential game-saving play, kicks the ball.
Meantime the Phils’ runner has momentarily held up going to third on a mistaken belief the ball might be caught on the fly, and O’Neill’s kick is a near-perfect relay to the first baseman. The run does not score.
Shown here.
It would’ve been perfect if that play eventually resulted in a Reds’ win, but you can’t have everything.
Andy Hawkins lost an eight-inning no hitter 4-0, with a lot of walks and errors.
MLB.com’s list of rare feats includes it.
It would have been ironic if, by scoring the winning run, Rose lost a bet.
Ironic, but completely in character.
I’d even call that Rosaic.
P. Rosaic
Well-played. 