The Dodgers win without a hit.

Incredible...

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Originally posted by wine+art:
The Dodgers win without a hit.

Incredible...

That's Dodger baseball!!

Been done before. See:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=196704301BAL

It's actually the fifth time it's happened since 1900. The White Sox actually beat the Yankees 4-0 in 1990 despite not getting a hit.

I saw that game on TV. Jim Leyritz dropped a fly ball in left field to start the trouble for Andy Hawkins.

I love these wierd games - makes baseball fun. Like how Koufax won his perfect game even though the Dodgers were one-hit by the Cubs, and the run was scored by Lou Johnson after he walked.

Remembering Koufax's game got me to remembering Scully's call, which was amazing. Not that anyone cares, but you can find it here:

http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/10/12/scully_koufax/

You can read the whole thing, but the call of the last out was:



He is one out away from the promised land, and Harvey Kuenn is comin' up.

So Harvey Kuenn is batting for Bob Hendley. The time on the scoreboard is 9:44. The date, September the 9th, 1965, and Koufax working on veteran Harvey Kuenn. Sandy into his windup and the pitch, a fastball for a strike! He has struck out, by the way, five consecutive batters, and that's gone unnoticed. Sandy ready and the strike 1 pitch: very high, and he lost his hat. He really forced that one. That's only the second time tonight where I have had the feeling that Sandy threw instead of pitched, trying to get that little extra, and that time he tried so hard his hat fell off -- he took an extremely long stride to the plate -- and Torborg had to go up to get it.

One and 1 to Harvey Kuenn. Now he's ready: fastball, high, ball 2. You can't blame a man for pushing just a little bit now. Sandy backs off, mops his forehead, runs his left index finger along his forehead, dries it off on his left pants leg. All the while Kuenn just waiting. Now Sandy looks in. Into his windup and the 2-1 pitch to Kuenn: swung on and missed, strike 2!

It is 9:46 p.m.

Two and 2 to Harvey Kuenn, one strike away. Sandy into his windup, here's the pitch:

Swung on and missed, a perfect game!

(38 seconds of cheering.)

On the scoreboard in right field it is 9:46 p.m. in the City of the Angels, Los Angeles, California. And a crowd of 29,139 just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball history to hurl four no-hit, no-run games. He has done it four straight years, and now he caps it: On his fourth no-hitter he made it a perfect game. And Sandy Koufax, whose name will always remind you of strikeouts, did it with a flurry. He struck out the last six consecutive batters. So when he wrote his name in capital letters in the record books, that "K" stands out even more than the O-U-F-A-X.