Brushes with perfection- tickets to near no-hitters and perfect games

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Hey Scott, how about a sub-sub catagory of pitchers that had no-hitters with 2 outs in the ninth. I believe Dave Stieb actually had 3 of those, and of course Bill Bevens in the 1947 world series.

I remember when I was a kid watching the Yankees play the Red Sox and watching Billy Rohr no-hit the Yankees until the bottom of the ninth with two outs until Ellie Howard poked a hit to right to break it up.

[barrysloate]

Chris- I remember watching that game too. I think it was 1967?

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Chris- I remember watching that game too. I think it was 1967?

Yep, 1967. The Yankees were a crappy team back then and the last thing I wanted to see was the Yankees being no-hit.

[Tigerden]

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Scott- These are a pair of tickets to the near perfect game you watched on television. My brother and I share Tigers season tickets which are exactly ten rows behind the four gentleman seated in the foreground of the attached picture. Big bro gets the aisle seat because the tickets account is in his name, and well, he is the big brother after all. Unfortunately, we did not attend this game and watched it on television together at his house, having to celebrate his wife's birthday. Guess the wife would have been pissed if we went to the ball game on her special day. Sadly, the four tickets went unused and we missed out at the chance to witness baseball history. Aside from being sick that this was the game we decided not to attend, it was really upsetting because we would have had the perfect vantage point for Jim Joyce's now infamous call.

[Tigerden]

Originally Posted by Tigerden

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Scott- These are a pair of tickets to the near perfect game you watched on television. My brother and I share Tigers season tickets which are exactly ten rows behind the four gentleman seated in the foreground of the attached picture. Big bro gets the aisle seat because the tickets account is in his name, and well, he is the big brother after all. Unfortunately, we did not attend this game and watched it on television together at his house, having to celebrate his wife's birthday. Guess the wife would have been pissed if we went to the ball game on her special day. Sadly, the four tickets went unused and we missed out at the chance to witness baseball history. Aside from being sick that this was the game we decided not to attend, it was really upsetting because we would have had the perfect vantage point for Jim Joyce's now infamous call.

I guess the attached picture showing the seats cannot be viewed. Sorry.

[Tigerden]

Originally Posted by thetruthisoutthere

I remember when I was a kid watching the Yankees play the Red Sox and watching Billy Rohr no-hit the Yankees until the bottom of the ninth with two outs until Ellie Howard poked a hit to right to break it up.

I will never forget in the early 80's watching the Tigers on television and Milt Wilcox had a perfect game with two outs in the ninth against the Chicago White Sox, until utility player Jerry Hairston hit a pinch hit single. The great George Kell was doing play by play and I still remember the disappointment in his voice with that genteel southern manner of speaking "...and a base hit up the middle".