No-hitters. The Dodgers have actually had 26 in their history including the ones thrown prior to the NL coming into existence in 1890, with Sandy’s perfecto on September 9th, 1965, being the most famous. Three of those 26 came prior to 1890. In the last three games they came close to having two more. I firmly believe Doc should have left Yoshi in to get the last out. He had handled Jackson all night including striking him out once. Since today is the 60th anniversary of Sandy’s perfecto, this is a perfect subject. What difference would five or six more pitches have made? You know what you have on the mound. You never know how a relief pitcher is going to perform. We have seen that from an inconsistent bullpen all year. 
In Glasnow’s game, Doc made the right decision. Glasnow had the Rockies on their heels all night. But he has rarely reached 100 pitches in a game. Even he acknowledged that Doc did the right thing. Putting Treinen in the game after his meltdown on Saturday was the right move too. Doc has to show those guys he really trusts them. Fans booed Scott after he gave up the leadoff double to Ritter. The booing was because the no-hitter was gone, and the fans have seen Scott implode one too many times.
In his defense, the loss on Saturday was on Treinen. He did not do his job which was simple enough, get one frippen out. Double, hit batter, walk, walk is not getting it done. He set Scott up for failure. Scott had to be perfect. He made a really good pitch to Rivera. Rivera just reached out and got the bat on the ball. Had he hit it harder, it would have been a liner to center that Dean could have caught. Last night Scott finished the job. Yes, the no-hitter was gone, but on a night when your closest pursuer gets a walk off win, the W was way more important. Especially since this weekend they are playing a very hot Giants team.
Thirteen of the Dodgers no-hitters have come since they moved West. Four of the ten belong to one pitcher, Koufax. Lefties have thrown seven of them. Valenzuela, Reuss and Kershaw threw the other three. Adonis Terry (2), Carl Erskine (2) and Koufax are the only Dodger pitchers with more than one. Koufax also threw two one hitters. May 23, 1960, against the Pirates. He gave up a double to the pitcher, Bernie Daniels in the second inning of a 1-0 win. On June 20, 1965, he gave up a fifth inning homer to Jim Hickman of the Mets in a 2-1 Dodger win.
As of last season, there have been 33 one hitters in LA history, 34 if you include the gem last night. Don Sutton, who never threw a no-hitter, had five of them as a Dodger. No other Dodger pitcher had more than two. One of the more memorable one-hitters was Rich Hill’s 10 inning 1-0 loss to the Pirates in 2017. Today is the anniversary of Sandy’s perfecto. Jeff posted an audio of Vinny’s call. 
#1 Koufax Vs Bob Miller of the Mets on Saturday, June 30th, 1962. Koufax would walk 5 and strikeout 13 on his way to his first no-hitter. The Dodgers scored four in the bottom of the first inning and they did it with two outs. Wills and Gilliam made outs. Willie Davis tripled. Tommy Davis singled him home. Fairly walked and Howard singled home Davis. Roseboro then doubled scoring Fairly and Howard. LA would not score again until Howard homered, his 8th, off of Ray Daviault in the 7th inning. Koufax threw 138 pitches in the win. Attendance 29,797.
#2 Koufax Vs Juan Marichal and the Giants on Saturday, May 11th, 1963. Koufax would walk only 2 in this game, but he also only struck out 4. The Dodgers scored the game’s first run in the bottom of the second inning when Wally Moon hit his 1st homer of the year off of Marichal. After that, the game was a pitcher’s duel until the bottom of the sixth inning. They scored 3 that inning with Marichal managing to get just one out. He was relieved by John Pregenzer who got the last 2 outs. They managed 9 hits and 1 walk off of Juan. After pitching a scoreless 8th inning, LA roughed up Pregenzer for 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th. The big blow was a 2-run double by Fairly. Pregenzer also walked 4 along with the 4 hits he allowed. LA got a DP after one of Sandy’s walks, so the Giants left just 1 runner on base. Koufax made 111 pitches. Attendance: 49,807. 
#3 Koufax Vs Chris Short and the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 4th, 1964. Koufax would allow one base runner in this game on a walk. He struck out 12. Short pitched a very good game also shutting out the Dodgers until the seventh inning when Howard hit a three-run homer to left field with no outs. Gilliam and Tommy Davis had singled to open the inning. Those were the only three runs scored in the game. Koufax got his 6th win and he threw just 97 pitches. The game took 1 hour 55 minutes to play. Attendance: 29,709. 
#4 Koufax Vs Bob Hendley of the Cubs at Dodger Stadium, Thursday, September 9th, 1965. Sandy Koufax became the first and so far, only Dodger to throw a perfect game. There was only one hit in the entire game, and it did not figure in the scoring. Sweet Lou Johnson, who was brought up to replace the injured Tommy Davis, drew a walk in the bottom of the fifth inning. He was sacrificed to second by Ron Fairly. He then stole third and scored when Chris Krug’s throw sailed into left field. He then broke up Hendley’s no-hitter with a double in the seventh inning. Meanwhile the Cubs failed to get to Koufax who struck out 14, including the last six batters in a row. In winning his 22nd game of the year, he threw 113 pitches. The game took 1:43 to play. Attendance was 29,139. It is no surprise to me that three of Sandy’s no-hitters were pitched at Dodger Stadium. It was more of a pitcher’s park in the 60’s. 
#5 Bill Singer Vs Woodie Fryman and the Phillies at Dodger Stadium, Monday, July 29th, 1970. The Dodgers got Singer a 2-0 lead in the first on singles by Willie Davis and Wes Parker driving in Grabarkewitz and Sizemore who had also singled. LA would score one more in the third and 2 in the fifth for a 5-0 lead. Both teams made 2 errors each. Singer did not walk anyone, and he struck out 10. The errors were made by Singer himself, plus he hit Oscar Gamble twice. The game took two hours and two minutes to play. Attendance was 12,454.
#6 Jerry Ruess Vs Vida Blue and the Giants at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Friday, June 27th, 1980. LA would pile up 17 hits in this game. They scored 1 in the first and 1 in the third before Dusty Baker hit his 17th homer, a 3-run shot to left off of Blue in the fifth to break the game open. LA scored 2 more in that inning. Garvey added a solo shot, his 16th, off of Gary Lavelle in the seventh to end the scoring. The only base runner Ruess allowed was on Bill Russell’s 9th error of the year. He struck out just 2 and made 107 pitches. The game took 2:13 to play and the attendance was 20,285. 
#7 Fernando Valenzuela Vs Jose De Leon and the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium on Friday, June 29th, 1990. Fernando was in his 11th season as a Dodger and past his best years. The 29-year-old from Mexico stymied the Cardinals allowing just 3 walks in this no-hitter. He threw 119 pitches. LA scored a run in the first, single runs in the fifth, sixth and eighth, and two runs in the seventh. Hubie Brooks homered in the fifth and Juan Samuel hit one in the eight. They had 12 hits and 4 walks, and the Cardinals made 3 errors. Fernando Struck out 7. The game took 2:47 to play and the attendance was 38,583. 
#8 Kevin Gross Vs Francisco Olivera and the Giants at Dodger Stadium, Monday, August 17th, 1992. Eric Karros hit his 17th homer of the year to start the scoring in the second inning. The Dodgers added another run in the bottom of the fourth when Brett Butler doubled and was singled home by Henry Rodriguez. Gross walked 2 and struck out 6 while making 99 pitches. Gross also hit a batter. Time of game was 2:23 and the attendance was 25,561. 
#9 Ramon Martinez Vs Josh Beckett and the Marlins at Dodger Stadium, Friday, July 14th, 1995. The Dodgers scored 2 runs in the third, 1 in the fourth and 4 in the sixth for the 7-0 win. Burkett went 5 innings allowing 3 of the runs on 6 hits and a walk. He struck out 6. LA had 10 hits, with Jose Offerman driving in 4 runs. He had a triple and Hollandsworth doubled. The only Marlins base runner was Tommy Gregg who drew a walk. Marinez struck out 8 and made 114 pitches. Game time was 2:21 in front of 30,988. It was Martinez’s 9th win of the year. 
#10 Hideo Nomo Vs Bill Swift and the Rockies at Coors Field, Tuesday, September 17th, 1996. The game is historic since it was the first no-hitter by a Japanese pitcher. The game was delayed 2 hours by a rain storm in Denver, and it was still drizzling when crew chief Bill Hohn deiced the conditions were good enough to play. The game was being broadcast to Japan and it was around 5P.M. in Japan when the bottom of the 9th inning started. People stopped traffic to watch the big monitors in Tokyo. The temperature at the start of the game was about 46 degrees. The Dodgers jumped on Swift for 5 runs in his five innings of work, getting 7 hits along with 2 walks. Two of the hits went for extra bases, Mondesi and Wayne Kirby had doubles. Mondesi was 3-5 with 2 runs driven in. Wallach hit a 2-run homer in the 9th for the final 2 runs in a 9-0 win. Nomo walked 4 and struck out 8. Game time was 2:51, and the attendance was listed as 50,000, but only about 30,000 stayed through the weather delay.
#11 Josh Beckett Vs A.J. Burnett and the Phillies at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia on Sunday, May 25th, 2014. The Dodgers scored single runs in the first and second innings to take a 2-0 lead. The second run scored on a homer by Justin Turner, his 2nd of the year. The Dodgers scored another run in the sixth, and then chased Burnett with a 3-run seventh. They had 11 hits and 4 walks off of him and 4 of the 6 runs were earned. Beckett gave up just 3 walks and struck out 6. He made 120 pitches. The time of the game was 2:37 and the attendance was 36,141.
#12 Clayton Kershaw Vs Jorge De La Rosa and the Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014. The only blemish in this game was an error by Hanley Ramirez in the seventh inning kept the game from being perfect, he was also helped by a great fielding play by rookie 3rd baseman, Miguel Rojas. The Dodgers scored 2 in the first inning. Gordon walked and stole second. Ramirez walked and both moved up when De La Rosa fired a pickoff throw into center field. Puig hit a sac-fly and Kemp singled in the second run. They broke the game open in the third scoring 5 runs, capped by Rojas’s double to left clearing the bases to make it 7-0. They chased De La Rosa in the fourth with their 8th run. Meanwhile Kershaw kept mowing down the Rockies hitters until Ramirez’s error in the seventh. With Tulo at the plate and pitching out of a stretch, Tulo hit a ball down the line to Rojas who made a one bounce throw to first just beating the runner and dug out by Adrian Gonzalez. Kershaw finished with 15 K’s, and made just 107 pitches. The game took 2:58 to play with 46,069 in attendance. Along with Beckett’s no-no in May, it was the first time the Dodgers had 2 pitchers toss no-hitters since Erskine and Maglie in 1956. 
# 13. Walker Buehler Vs Joey Lucchesi and the Padres at Estadio de Beisbol in Monterrey, Mexico on Friday, May 4th, 2018. Buehler got the start in what would be the Dodgers first even combined no-hitter. As part of MLB’s take the show on the road program they had started a few years earlier, LA played a three-game series with the Padres as the home team. The Dodgers scored a run in the first and 2 in the second to take a 3-0 lead. Buehler would pitch six innings allowing 3 walks and striking out 8 on 93 pitches. Tony Cingrani, Yimi Garcia and Adam Liberatore followed with scoreless innings with only Cingrani’s 2 walks keeping them from being perfect. The trio struck out 5 more Padres for a total of 13. The Dodgers scored their 4th run in 6th inniing. Chris Taylor and Kike homered in the second.
Those are the 13 no-hitters in Dodger history. They almost got # 14 and #15. Me, I just settle for the wins.
MiLB GAME SUMMARY REPORTS
OKC Comets 5 – Sacramento River Cats (San Francisco) 1
Last night it was Roki Sasaki with the strong start. In Wednesday’s game it was Andrew Heaney. He pitched the first 3.0 innings, allowed just 1 hit, and of the 10 batters he faced he recorded 8 strikeouts . In his first game back at OKC, Ben Casparius followed Heaney, retired all 5 batters he faced, 3 via a strikeout.
Ronan Kopp continued the strikeout flurry with striking out 5 of the 8 batters he faced. He did allow a hit, but no walks and runs.
Logan Boyer struck out 1 and walked 1 in his 1.0 IP.
Sacramento did score their sole run in the 9th off Paul Gervase. Combined, the pitchers, allowed just 1 run, struck out 17, walked 3 and allowed 3 hits.
OKC put up 3 in the 2nd. José Ramos singled. Nick Senzel reached on an error. Both runners scored on a Kody Hoese double (23). Hoese scored on an Esteury Ruiz triple (5).
They scored 2 more in the 4th. Hoese hit his 7th HR, a solo shot, and Ruiz hit his 2nd triple (6) of the night and scored on a balk.
- José Ramos – 3-4, 1 run, triple (3)
- Kody Hoese – 2-4, 2 runs, 1 RBI, double (23), HR (7)
- Esteury Ruiz – 2-4, 1 run, 1 RBI, 2 triples (6)
- Ryan Ward – 1-4, triple (6)
Tulsa Drillers 4 – Arkansas Travelers (Seattle) 3 – 13 innings
The Tulsa Drillers missed an opportunity Wednesday afternoon to cut their magic number to three in their quest to clinch a berth in the 2025 Texas League playoffs. The Drillers took an early one-run lead in the contest, but the Travelers answered with four straight runs of their own and eventually posted a 7-4 victory in the final afternoon game of the season.
With the defeat, the Drillers lead on second-place in the TL’s North Division, and a spot in the league’s playoffs, was trimmed to just 1.0 games over Wichita.
In Wednesday’s afternoon matchup, Kole Myers, batting in the leadoff spot, beat out an infield single to open the inning. Myers advanced to second on an errant pickoff throw and to third on a ground out, and scored on James Tibbs III’s RBI ground out.
The Travelers generated a run of their own in the top of the second to quickly tie the score at 1-1.
Arkansas broke the tie with an unearned run in the fifth inning, putting the Travs up 2-1.
Tulsa fell into a deeper hole in the sixth inning when Arkansas upped its lead to 4-1. Reliever Cam Day, making his Double-A debut, walked the first batter he faced and hit the second with a pitch. Day battled to get a ground out and a strikeout to nearly escape the jam, but Freddy Batista delivered a two-out single that brought home two.
The Drillers trimmed the deficit to one run in the bottom half of the sixth. Travs starting pitcher walked the first two batters of the inning, and Yeiner Fernandez followed with a run-scoring single.
Former Tulsa reliever Michael Hobbs replaced Morales and got a strikeout before Griffin Lockwood-Powell provided a sacrifice fly on a deep drive into the left field corner, pulling the Drillers to within 4-3.
Arkansas again delivered a quick response when Colt Emerson doubled against Brandon Neeck to open the top of the seventh inning. Right fielder Zyhir Hope bobbled the ball, allowing Emerson to slide safely into third on the error. Montes singled with one out to bring Emerson home and give the Travelers a two-run lead.
Windish’s third home run of the season leading off the ninth upped the margin to three runs before four walks forced home another run for the Travs.
The Drillers did not go down quietly in the bottom half of the ninth. With two outs, Sean McLain was hit with a pitch and he scored when Myers followed with a double into the left field corner. But that is all the Drillers would get.
With his first-inning RBI ground out, Tibbs III has driven in 28 runs in just 32 games with the Drillers.
In what was likely his final appearance of the regular season, Jackson Ferris worked five complete innings and allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits. He held the Travelers without a hit through the first four innings, but he was hampered by three walks and needed a total of 85 pitches to get through the five frames. Ferris will finish the regular season with a 10-7 record and a 3.86 ERA with 135 strikeouts in 126.0 total innings. The lefthander was outstanding in the second half of the year, going 7-2 with a 2.05 ERA.
Josue De Paula was 0-5 with 1 K, and Zyhir Hope was 0-4, with 1 K. AA is a difference maker. They are both getting exposed and should be better prepared for next year.
Dodgers turned two big innings into 9 runs. In the second inning an error by Kyle Karros opened the door. After Rojas singled, Pages doubled in Edman. Kike hit a sac fly scoring Rojas. Rordvedt who replaced Smith just prior to the start of the game grounded out to second. Ohtani singled, scoring Pages. He then stole second base and scored on a double by Betts. LA did not score again until the 8th inning when they loaded the bases with one out and Betts hit a grand slam homer to left field, his fourth hit of the night. Teo followed with a solo homer for the 9-0 final. Vesia came in to pitch in the 7th with the bases loaded and one out. Kopech had gotten one out but loaded the bases on walks. Vesia then struck out Moniak and Freeman to end the threat. Yates pitched a scoreless 8th.Padres and Giants lost, so did the Mets. LA now leads the West by 3.
Another superlative start from one of the 6 LAD starting pitchers. Blake Snell dominated for 6.0 innings. As he said after the game, just too many 3-2 counts. He said he would work on attacking more and try to stay away from 3 ball counts.
Vesia bailed out Kopech and looks to be in October form. Even Yates looked good.
Dodgers pitchers now have 7 straight games with double digit Ks.
Mookie and his 4 hits and 5 RBIs. He now has multi RBI games in 5 consecutive games. He now has 74 RBIs.
I am becoming a big Ben Rortvedt fan. He finds out he is catching a guy he has never caught before 15 minutes before game time, and handles Blake Snell very well. Teams do not like to use catchers late in the season who have not caught their pitchers, and yet Rortvedt has done that and handled the job easily. He is also hitting .308/.400/.308/.708. He reminds me of a LH hitting Austin Barnes, who I was very much a fan of. Handles the pitchers well, blocks balls, frames well, and has a weak arm. He is a backup catcher. He is not supposed to be a Cal Raleigh.
Great win. Now on to SF. Friday figures to be a good one…Justin Verlander vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Kershaw goes Saturday, and Glasnow. Logan Webb will probably pitch Sunday for SF.
Kopech still the same wild problem. Sasaki ready to pitch with the big club, so now what do they do with him?