A no-hitter is a rare accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff—only 318 have been thrown in MLB history since 1876, an average of about two per year.
Baseball-Reference.com notes: “No-hitters occur at a rate of about three per season over the course of MLB history. The most no-hitters in a single season was 1884 in which 12 were thrown, followed by 1990 with nine and 1991 with eight.” In more recent times, there have been 70 no-hitters since 2000.
The cycle is about as uncommon as a no-hitter; it has been called "one of the rarest" and "most difficult feats" in baseball.
The rarest achievement for a pitcher is a perfect game, in which not a single player on the opposing team gets on base. Since there are no hits in a perfect game, all perfect games are no-hitters.
Unassisted triple plays
The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs in one play. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
No major league player has ever thrown two perfect games, although Jean Faut of the AAGPBL accomplished the feat with perfect games in 1951 and 1953.
On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt . 45s became the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter and lose. In fact, he is still the only individual to throw an official (nine-inning) no-hitter and lose.
This is because it requires a ball to be hit solidly to a distant part of the field (ordinarily a line drive or fly ball near the foul line closest to right field), or the ball to take an irregular bounce in the outfield, usually against the wall, away from a fielder.
There has never been a complete-game double no-hitter in the major leagues. It has occurred 10 times in the minors: Aug. 7, 1886: Oakland's George Van Haltren beat San Francisco's Jim McMullin 4-2 in a California League game that featured a lot of runs when you consider neither team had a hit.
An official no-hit game occurs in Major League Baseball (MLB) when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings thrown by the pitcher(s). By definition, a perfect game is also a no-hitter, as no batters reach base (thus there are no hits allowed).
In 1987, Joey Meyer of the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs launched a moonshot into the second deck of Mile High Stadium. City of Denver engineer Jerry Tennyson was able to verify the distance of the home run at 582 feet. Meyer made his big league debut the following season with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Switch-hitting has always been a rare skill throughout baseball history, but the number of batters who can swing both ways has dwindled in recent years. From that previous piece: In 2021, just 17 qualified batters (13.1%) were switch-hitters, right in line with the league-wide average over the last decade.
The 2021 MLB season made history with a record nine no-hitters. The 2022 season has three no-hit games in just over three months. The Astros threw the most recent no-hitter, which occurred Saturday, June 25. Starter Cristian Javier led a combined, three-man effort, pitching seven innings with 13 strikeouts.
The scoring symbol “K” was first used in the scoring of an actual game in 1868. One reason the letter “K” was used because “K” was the prominent letter of the word strike. Another reason the letter "K" is used is that it is made with 3 strokes of the pencil, symbolizing the 3 strikes for the strikeout.
Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.
Definition. Total bases refer to the number of bases gained by a batter through his hits. A batter records one total base for a single, two total bases for a double, three total bases for a triple and four total bases for a home run.
A walk (or base on balls) occurs when a pitcher throws four pitches out of the strike zone, none of which are swung at by the hitter. After refraining from swinging at four pitches out of the zone, the batter is awarded first base. In the scorebook, a walk is denoted by the letters BB.
Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer famously became the only man to pitch back-to-back no-hitters in June 1938, but even he fell shy of Young, ultimately settling at 21 hitless innings for the NL record.
A game that is a no-hitter through nine innings may be broken up in extra innings. Under current rules, such a game (whether won or lost) is not considered an official no-hitter because the pitching staff did not keep the opposing team hitless for the entire course of the game.
May 1, 1991: 44 year-old Nolan Ryan throws his 7th career no hitter, blanking the Blue Jays 3-0, becoming the oldest player in MLB history ever to throw a no-hitter.
As a result, Rare is now a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios. The last game they made for a Nintendo console as a Independent company was Star Fox Adventures, a game for the Nintendo GameCube which was originally called Dinosaur Planet and was planned to be released on the Nintendo 64.
Nintendo Campus Challenge 1991 is considered the rarest Nintendo title to date, considering only one copy exists. In 2009, someone bought the allegedly only copy for $20,100. Nintendo continued its Campus Challenges, and there are allegedly only three Nintendo Campus Challenge 1992 cartridges out there.
On May 13, 1952 while pitching for the Class-D Bristol Twins, Ron Necciai tossed a no-hitter, striking out 27 in nine innings!