1990 was such a year for me. "The Year of the No-Hitter" Officially, there were 7 that year. Mark Langston and Mike Witt, 4/11 Randy Johnson, 6/2 Nolan Ryan, 6/11 Dave Stewart, 6/29 Fernando Valenzuela, 6/29 Terry Mulholland, 8/15 Dave Stieb, 9/2 There were two more where the pitcher did not go 9 innings. Andy Hawkins only got to pitch 8 innings on 7/1 because his team lost 4-0 on the road. Melido Perez threw a 6-inning rain-shortened no-hitter on 7/12. Both of those games were Yankees-White Sox tilts.
Errors and walks led to the 4 runs and because the Yankees were losing at Comiskey Park, the bottom of the 9th did not need to be played.
Wow. usually walks or errors without a hit might get 1 or 2 over the course of a game. 4 is notably wild.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hawkins On July 1, 1990, Hawkins pitched a no-hitter for the Yankees against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park but lost the game. Hawkins dominated the White Sox into the eighth inning, where he retired the first two batters. After that, Sammy Sosa reached on a throwing error by Yankees third baseman Mike Blowers. Hawkins then walked the next two batters. That brought up Robin Ventura, who lofted a fly ball to left field. The blustery winds buffeted the ball, and rookie Jim Leyritz, normally a third baseman, booted it, allowing all three baserunners to score. The next batter, Ivan Calder?n, hit a fly ball to right field, which was lost in the sun and dropped by Jesse Barfield. The final count for the inning: four runs, no hits, three errors. The Yankees, who had not scored all game, were unable to score in the 9th inning, giving Hawkins the loss. The 4-0 loss was the largest margin of a no-hitter loss in the 20th century, and Hawkins became the first Yankees pitcher to lose a no-hitter. On Sept. 4, 1991 the Committee for Statistical Accuracy, appointed by Commissioner Fay Vincent, changed the definition of a no-hitter to require that a pitcher throw at least nine full innings and a complete game. Since Hawkins played for the visiting team in the game in question, the White Sox never batted in the ninth inning, Hawkins lost the credit for a no-hitter.
