Feller? I Hardly Knew Her!
While Bob Feller's claim of throwing the only Opening Day no-hitter remains intact for a 79th season, we learned about second-day no-hitters early and often last weekend. Feller's November 3 birthday falls 11 days after Kyle Gibson's, which he shares with Al Leiter, Jim Bunning, Bud Smith, and Ewell Blackwell. That put October 23 just three innings from joining June 1 in the "five no-hitter-throwers" club. As it was, Gibson walked a bunch of people and was pulled after six innings, five walks, and 102 pitches, leaving Ryan Pressly to surrender the Orioles' first hit in the 8th. The only other Twins/Senators starter since 1910 to leave with a no-hitter intact that late in a game was Kevin Slowey, who needed 106 pitches to get through 7 against Oakland on August 15, 2010.
As months go, three of the ones that fall during baseball season don't have a 31st day, and thanks to Jonathan Schoop (but late enough that we had already looked it up), there hasn't been a no-hitter thrown on the 31st since Vern Kennedy of the White Sox did it against Cleveland in August 1935. And also still true, the only no-hitter ever thrown in the 26-plus seasons of Oriole Park At Camden Yards was by Hideo Nomo of the Red Sox on April 4, 2001-- also the second game of that season.
Stop Us If You've Heard This One
Of course, we had that Hideo Nomo factoid handy because the day before, the Dodgers and Giants played a 1-0 game that was ultimately decided by a Joe Panik solo homer. To which you might be saying, hey, you already covered that in your Opening Day post. Yep, we did. Pssst, it happened again. Number-two starters Johnny Cueto and Alex Wood combined to give up one hit in the first six innings, which mathematically means one of them was also on no-hitter watch. In this case it was Cueto, and it turns out that for as many times as they've played, the last time the Giants no-hit the Dodgers was April 15, 1915, when Rube Marquard did it at the Polo Grounds, also in the second game of the season. (Marquard, for his part, asked for his release and then negotiated his own contract with Brooklyn later that season.) The only other second-game-of-season NHs (besides Nomo) were thrown by Bob Forsch in 1978 and Burt Hooton in 1972 (when the season started a week late due to a strike).
Although Chris Taylor finally led off the 7th with a single, this game marked the first one in the "Retrosheet Era" (which indicates full boxscores and dates to 1908) that two starters had both gone seven innings with one hit and zero walks allowed in the same game. To say nothing of Taylor getting retired on a double play, making it the first time that the Giants have faced the minimum 27 batters in a nine-inning game and not thrown a no-hitter since June 7, 1988 (two Braves hits retired on a DP and a CS). (Also, we did a Venn diagram of all the pitching feats last season; "FM" is still our favorite.) And the Dodgers earned another nugget by committing four errors, thereby posting the first "0-1-(4+)" linescore in the majors since the White Sox (0-1-5) did it on August 26, 1992.
And don't Panik, we'll get back to Joe. As reported in the Opening Day post, the Giants hadn't ridden a solo homer to victory over the Dodgers since 1960. Then they did it two days in a row. Only two other teams in the live-ball era have done that, the 1964 Angels (Bob Perry July 15 and Felix Torres July 17) and the 1960 Tigers (Rocky Colavito May 10 and Al Kaline May 11). Notice those homers were by different players. According to Stats Inc., Panik and the Giants are the first team ever to win back-to-back 1-0's on solo homers by the same player.
The 2018 Giants also join the 1943 Reds as the only teams to win each of their first two games by a 1-0 score (regardless of how the run scored).
It's Dry In The Desert
("Big, if true", as they say.)
After shutting out the Giants in the last two games of the series (joining the 1915 Phillies as the only teams to allow ≤ 2 runs through their first four games of a season), the Dodgers then went to Arizona and got one-hit again, this time on Wednesday by Patrick Corbin and a couple of his bullpen friends. The one hit was a 5th-inning double by Matt Kemp, so we narrowly missed trotting out some Randy Johnson perfect-game notes. We ended up with others, though. Wednesday's game was the fifth one in D'backs history where they allowed one hit and struck out 15 opponents; the others were all thrown by either Johnson or Curt Schilling in 2001 and 2002. It was the first time in Los Angeles Dodgers history (1958), and probably Brooklyn as well-- though we can't prove it-- where their offense had sputtered in such fashion. The last time the Dodgers' lone hit was an XBH was May 31, 2005, against the Cubs, when a Cesar Izturis double drove in the great Hee-Seop Choi (who had reached on a dropped third strike, of all things).
Corbin, meanwhile, went 2-for-2 at the plate with a double and a single. In so doing, he became the fifth pitcher in Arizona history to produce more hits than he allowed. The others are Ian Kennedy (2010), Dan Haren (2009), Micah Owings (2007 in his 2-HR game), and Randy Johnson (2003 one-hitter vs Rockies).
Combined with their struggle on Opening Day, it marked the first time the Dodgers had been one-hit twice in a six-day span since September 4 and 9, 1915, in a home-and-home series with the Boston Braves. And the second game... they won! See below for exactly how.
The D'backs then played a midweek series in St Louis, and in Thursday's finale Robbie Ray (and four relievers because #bullpenning) held the Cardinals to two hits and recorded 13 strikeouts. The Cardinals have only reached that level of futility in a home game four times in the live-ball era, the last being across the street at the previous Busch Stadium (September 29, 2000, vs Reds).
Pitchers Who Rake
Reds starter Tyler Mahle "broke up" the Pirates' no-hit bid on Sunday with a 3rd-inning single in his first plate appearance. Little did he (or anyone else) know that, six innings later, he would still be the only thing standing between Jameson Taillon and a no-hit bid. Taillon walked two and plunked one, but never allowed another base knock in throwing a 110-pitch, one-hit shutout. It was the Pirates' first SHO-1 since A.J. Burnett threw one at Wrigley Field on July 31, 2012, and their first at home since Todd Ritchie lost his no-no with one out in the 9th on July 13, 2001 (to the Royals' Luis Alicea).
More notably, it marked the first time in over a century that the Redlegs had gotten only one hit in a game and it was by the pitcher. On September 19, 1914, they played a doubleheader with Brooklyn, and it was a reliever-- rare for that time to begin with-- who broke up Jeff Pfeffer's bid in the 8th. According to the New York Sun, Earl Yingling "was mean enough to cheat him of such distinction [the no-hitter] through a very useless hit with two out in the eighth", followed by some trolling of the umpire for not ringing up the previous batter on what appeared to be strike three. If only they had robot umps.
The Dirty Dozen
You can't spell Ohtani without "no hit". (Actually maybe you can in Japanese; we'll send that over to the Kernels Translation Desk just as soon as we create same.) And the two-way phenom that is Shohei Ohtani nearly broke the Internet on Sunday by retiring the first 19 Oakland batters he faced, throwing anything from 68-mph first-pitch curveballs to 98- and 99-mph gas. He recorded six strikeouts the first time through the order, and 12 total-- all of them swinging. The Internet survived thanks only to Marcus Semien's seeing-eye single to left with one out in the 7th. He then walked Matt Olson on four pitches, was removed, the Athletics homered in the 9th, and years from now this will look like another boring AL West game.
The Athletics haven't been no-hit since July 13, 1991, when the Orioles threw a combined one at them at (really) Memorial Stadium (its final year, that's how long ago this was). That 26-plus-year drought is the longest in the majors; i.e., all 29 other teams have been no-hit at least once (and usually multiple times) since then. And speaking of no-hitters, that Ohtani line from Sunday? Twelve strikeouts and only one hit allowed? In Angels history that's only happened seven times. And the other six are all by Nolan Ryan (including three of his NHs).
Mo' Nomo
In other "low hit" news, the Indians got a 1st-inning homer from Jose Ramirez to grab a quick 2-0 lead in Anaheim on Tuesday. Unfortunately there were eight more innings left, and while the Angels piled up 13 more runs and 13 hits, the Indians, well, didn't. It marked just the second time in the live-ball era that Cleveland's only hit of a game was a 1st-inning homer, and the other was last year. On August 22, Francisco Lindor led off the game against the Red Sox with a dinger and then Doug Fister retired 27 out of 30 (and got two of the others on double plays).
Remember that part about Kyle Gibson getting removed after six innings with the no-hitter still intact? Every time we think we've reached peak #bullpenning, it turns out, nope. The Pirates' Trevor Williams got through six innings last Sunday on 85 pitches with five walks and no hits. So guess what, he's done. In comes Michael Feliz to give up the Tigers' first hit in the 7th. The last time that happened (pitcher removed from game after 6+ no-hit innings) on back-to-back days was July 11 and 12, 1997. Ben McDonald of the Brewers was pulled after six, and another Pirate, Francisco Cordova, actually threw the full nine no-hit innings, but the game was a scoreless tie. After Mark Smith homered in the 10th, Ricardo Rincon came on to finish the combined no-no against Houston (who would throw their own historic combined no-hitter six years later).
And adding to the legend that is Philadelphia sports fans, new manager Gabe Kapler was already booed in his first home game after the Phillies went 1-4 with a rainout on their opening road trip. That included Tuesday and Wednesday at Citi Field, where the club managed just nine hits total. The last time the Mets held the Phillies to five hits in back-to-back games was July 17 and 18, 1998, when their starting pitchers were Al Leiter and, yes, Hideo Nomo.
Seattle, San Francisco Too
Meanwhile, back at AT&T Park, the Giants stymied the Mariners in an interleague game on Wednesday, despite Johnny Cueto giving up eight times as many hits as he did in his first start. He became the first Giants pitcher to allow eight hits, strike out only one batter, yet give up just one run, since Ryan Vogelsong did it against the Dodgers on May 8, 2012. It was the third time since the start of last season that Seattle had converted 10 or more team hits into only one run; the other 14 American League teams have combined to do it twice. And the Mariners went 2-for-17 with runners in scoring position, their worst "RISP" line since an 0-for-17 against the Orioles in September 2012... in a game that took 18 innings.
Intermission
In case you didn't get the reference in the last header. It's at 2:46.
Last Friday Night
Opening Day treated us to three walkoffs, but none of those games went longer than 11 innings. In a development that may make us rethink our stance on the minor-league "free baserunner" rule, this week's lack of offense didn't last only nine innings. The Marlins essentially played their third game of the season as an extension of their second, needing 17 frames and 12:28 am to beat the Cubs on a Miguel Rojas walkoff. Brian Anderson began the "rally" with a two-out single, making Rojas's hit the latest walkoff in Marlins history, surpassing by one out Todd Zeile's single to beat Toronto on June 8, 1998. The Marlins have played just two longer games in their history, both 20-inning affairs won by the visiting team. Catcher Chad Wallach became the first Marlin ever to strike out five times in a win, and the 12:28 ending time was the fourth-latest in the seven-season history of Marlins Park. That record, 22 minutes later, is held by a 16-inning, 9-8 loss to the Mets last April.
This Friday Night
The Orioles bunched some hits into a five-run 7th inning on Thursday in their series opener at Yankee Stadium, then found themselves locked in a 3-3 extra-inning affair on Friday. After a controversial call in the 11th that was eventually confirmed (and btw, the Kernels Rules Desk points out that the plate-block rule still only mentions the catcher, not a pitcher who is covering), the teams played three more innings before another bunch of Baltimore hits, one intended as a sacrifice but turned into a bases-loaded situation by an error. Cue Pedro Alvarez. You probably know what happened.
The current Baltimore franchise had never hit a grand slam in the 14th or later, and the Yankees had never given one up. (The Cubs' Javier Baez had the most recent one in the majors, in June 2016.) It was the sixth-latest (by inning) home run hit at the current Yankee Stadium, and the first not hit by the Yankees or Red Sox. In fact, in their 115 years of playing each other, the Orioles/Browns had never hit any home run against the Pinstripes after the 11th.
Manny Machado, who homered twice in regulation, was on second for the grand slam, and was the first Oriole with the combination of four hits and two walks in a game since Frank Robinson at Oakland on August 24, 1969. No Baltimore hitter had reached base six times in a game, in any combo, since Mark Reynolds did it in a semi-famous 17-inning Sunday afternoon game with Boston on May 6, 2012.
And as we say around here, there's always one left out. Tim Beckham drew an 0-for-6 and was the first Oriole to strike out five times in a game since Chris Davis did it in that same 17-inning fest. But at least Davis got to be the winning pitcher.
Time Passages
Earlier we mentioned the Dodgers getting one-hit in Arizona on Wednesday. On Monday they managed seven runs and 19 hits, but only five singles in six extra innings before Nick Ahmed and Jeff Mathis combined for a walkoff victory for the Diamondbacks in the bottom of the 15th. Arizona's never had a walkoff after the 16th, and of the six in their history to come in the 15th or 16th, four have been against the Dodgers. (Yes, they're in the division, but that still makes up only 12% of their games.)
The contest set a length-of-game record for Chase Field (5:48), and just as we were starting the petition to make Arizona adopt Daylight-Saving Time, it also set a "latest finish" record by ending at 12:25 am MST. Thanks to the roof (no rain delays) and a usual start time of 6:40 (instead of 7:10), the Diamondbacks have had only four occurrences of #WeirdBaseball (after midnight local), with three of those being in the last four seasons. The older game was the one that lost the finish record; Dante Powell's double was one of those 16-inning walkoffs against the Dodgers on April 13, 1999.
Ketel Marte also became the ninth player in D'backs history with multiple triples in a game; in what is probably not a coincidence, all nine of those games have been in Phoenix.
McC(l)utch
The week didn't get much easier for the Dodgers, who had to go to San Francisco for the weekend. It may be dry in the desert, but it was wet in the Bay Area, causing the first rainout at AT&T Park since April 12, 2006. The schedule says that game's being made up on the 28th, but they basically made it up on Saturday with yet another marathon that looked like it was ending when Logan Forsythe singled home a run in the 14th.
Andrew McCutchen, on the other hand, said, wait, I've seen this movie before. After Wilmer Font gave up two singles to start the 14th, Cutch cranked the 12th pitch of his at-bat to left field for a walkoff three run homer which was also his sixth hit of the game. Friend Of Kernels Mark Simon beat us to the nugget that Jim Northrup of the 1969 Tigers was the only other player to have six hits including a walkoff home run, and his was only in the 13th inning. The Giants' last walkoff against the Dodgers that far into a game came on May 2, 1995, and was equally as dramatic: Los Angeles scored three times in the top of the 15th, Robby Thompson tied the game with his own three-run homer, and then Matt Williams doubled home Barry Bonds with the winning run two batters later.
McCutchen became the first player in Giants history (1882) to hit a walkoff home run in the 14th or later while the team was trailing. But as for seeing that movie before, the last player in the majors to do so... was Andrew McCutchen! As a Pirate on July 11, 2015, he hit a two-run walokoff in the 14th after the Cardinals had scored 1 in their half. We have not yet found any other player in baseball history to pull this off twice.
And since RBI became official in 1920, only one other Giant has had four of them and also six hits in a game, and he's in the Hall Of Fame. That was Frankie Frisch against the Boston Braves on September 10, 1924.
worse places to spend 11 hours than AT&T Park.
By The Way
We accept that we may be comparing different fruits here because the strategy would change, but we do that for unearned runs, so what the heck. Anyway, if those four games above (which all went 14+ innings) had been played with the new minor-league rules and a "free runner" at second base, and all the subsequent plays had occurred just as they did in real life (instead of bunting the guy to third and then the intentional walk to set up the inning-ending double play), each game would have had the same result and been three innings shorter (except the Orioles' win, which would have been in 10 instead of 14).
Exceptions
The Yankees' series with the Orioles may not have gone quite the way they wanted, but their snow-shortened opener with the Rays showed the Yankee Stadium fireworks that everyone was expecting. Just not from Stanton and Judge. In Tuesday's de facto home opener, Stanton whiffed five times, earning him some hearty Philadelphia-style boos in his Stadium debut. Instead it was Didi Gregorius who picked up the heart of the order with a pair of three-run homers and then an 8th-inning double to finish with four hits and eight runs batted in. Only one other Yankee had ever hit two taters in a home opener, Russ Derry against the Red Sox in 1945. And only one other Yankee had ever gone a perfect 4-for-4 (or better) with 8 RBI in any game. If you guessed that was Danny Tartabull in 1992,-- no you didn't, put your hand down.
Since RBI became an official stat in 1920, no player, for any team, had ever collected eight of them in a home opener. And Tuesday was the first game in Yankees history (opener or not) where one player had two homers and another had five strikeouts.
In Wednesday's 7-2 win, Stanton quieted the boos with a two-run homer in his first at-bat. By the 4th inning, Aaron Judge (who hit before Stanton) had also hit a two-run shot, as had Gary Sanchez (who hit after him). That made it the first game in 18 seasons that the Yankees' 2-, 3-, and 4-hitters all had a multi-run homer in the same game. On July 25, 2000, at Camden Yards, the trio was Derek Jeter, Paul O'Neill, and Bernie Williams.
20/20 Hindsight
The Marlins may be rethinking that decision to let Stanton (and lots of others) go. But on Saturday even his offense probably wouldn't have been enough as the Phillies literally doubled their season run total (which was 19 in six games) by dropping the majors' first 20-1 score since May 21, 2009 (Twins over White Sox). The Phils hit four homers (also doubling their season total) including two grand slams, their first contest with multiple salami(s?) since April 27, 2009, when Raul Ibañez and Ryan Howard hit them against the Nationals.
Dillon Peters, who started for the Marlins, got tagged for nine runs before leaving in the 3rd. Jacob Turner didn't fare any better, giving up all eight Phillies runs in the bottom of the 4th. Since earned runs were first officially kept in 1912, they are just the sixth set of teammates to each allow 8 ER in less than 3 IP. The previous was Michael Lorenzen and Dylan Axelrod of the Reds at (of course) Coors Field in 2015. Only one of those occurrences is before the year 2000.
And The Home Of The Braves
This week's Washington/Atlanta series didn't lack for offense, with 36 runs and 51 hits recorded over just three games. The Nats started early on Monday as leadoff hitter Trea Turner reached on one error, went to third on another error, and then scored on Anthony Rendon's groundout. And when the Nats collected three runs, including a Ryan Zimmerman homer, in the 1st inning Tuesday, it made them the second team to record a 1st-inning run in each of their first five games of a season. The other was the 1944 Browns, who of course made their only World Series appearance that season.
Zimmerman's homer would be followed with taters by Preston Tucker in B1, Nats pitcher A.J. Cole in T2, Freddie Freeman in B2, and Bryce Harper in T3. That made Tuesday the second game in the last 30 years where homers were hit in each of the first five half-innings... and the other was last year (Cardinals/Pirates, August 18). Before that it hadn't happened since 1984. Around those homers the Braves piled up 10 earned runs against Cole, making him the first pitcher to allow 10 ER but also hit a home run since then-Royal Zack Greinke (yes, an AL guy!) did it in Arizona on June 10, 2005. Atlanta's 2 through 5 of Freeman, Tucker, Ozzie Albies, and Nick Markakis combined for 10 hits and 10 RBI, a first for the team since July 1, 2009.
And as for that homer on Monday, that was pretty much the only strike Bryce Harper saw. He walked in all four of his remaining plate appearances, becoming the third player in franchise history with that line. Ron Fairly (June 5, 1973, also against Atlanta) and the recently-departed Rusty Staub (May 8, 1970, vs Padres) were the two Expos with a homer and four walks. Harper now has five career four-walk games, equalling the total of all other Nationals combined since the 2005 move. Harper would homer again on both Saturday and Sunday against the Mets, making him the first player in the 50 seasons of Nats/Expos lore to go deep five times in the team's first eight games of a season, and/or six in their first nine.
On Friday the Braves headed to Coors Field, which is an exception to everything, and Dansby Swanson became just the second Atlantan to go single-double-triple in Denver. The other was Kenny Lofton, who did it way back on April 19, 1997.
Beer Batters
In addition to Coors Field, the other two major domestic breweries have stadiums also: Busch Stadium in St Louis and Miller Park in Milwaukee. And guess which two teams also played a series with each other this week. Former Padres prospect Miles Mikolas made his return to MLB after three years in Japan, and while he did allow three homers, his offense bailed him out by scoring eight times for the win. Mikolas even helped his own cause with his first MLB hit, a two-run homer. That made him the first Cards hurler to give up three bombs but also hit one since Woody Williams did it against the Dodgers on July 20, 2003 (he got the win as well). And only one other pitcher in the live-ball era has homered in his first appearance with the Cardinals; that was Glen Hobbie on June 5, 1964 (Hobbie had been traded from the Cubs in exchange for Lew Burdette, who had been MVP of the 1957 World Series with Milwaukee). Since the start of 2011 Cardinals pitchers have hit 10 home runs-- five at home at Busch Stadium and four at Miller Park. Alas, the other one is not at Coors (which is never a bad guess), it's Adam Wainwright in Cincinnati.
If you were still tailgating at Miller Park (it's big there) when Tuesday's game started, you might want to shut off the grill and run inside. Dexter Fowler just led off the game with a homer. Guess what, while you're waiting for it to cool, Tommy Pham just homered too. Which means you missed just the second occurrence in Cardinals history of leading off a road game with back-to-back homers. (If you're tailgating, you're probably a Brewers fan, so you don't care, but roll with it.) The other such game was at Dodger Stadium on August 17, 1958; Curt Flood and Gene Freese went deep off none other than Sandy Koufax.
By the 8th inning, you might be getting restless to get back to that tailgating. The Brew Crew is trailing 4-1, Bernie hasn't gotten to go down the slide, and while a two-run 8th to get within one might be enough to keep you in the stadium, you're probably working toward the exit. Two quick outs in the 9th and, okay, let's leave.
Never leave.
That eruption while you're walking to the parking lot? That's Christian Yelich tying the game with a solo homer. And before you can get to the car and turn the radio on, Ryan Braun deposits the very next pitch over the wall in left-center for the walkoff. It's Braun's fourth walkoff homer, trailing only Robin Yount's six in Brewers history (others also have four). Only once before had the Brewers hit a tying home run with two outs in the 9th and then a go-ahead homer still with two outs in the 9th, and those weren't back-to-back. Paul Molitor and Ted Simmons did it against the Tigers on April 25, 1985. And it's been almost 14 years since any team hit a tying homer with two outs in the 9th and then a walkoff on the very next pitch. Nick Green and J.D. Drew, then of the Braves, did it against the lame-duck Montreal Expos on June 1, 2004.
More notably, it's the first game in major-league history to start with back-to-back homers and end with back-to-back homers.
And you missed all four of them. The brats were good though.
By the way, the Brewers also walked off against the Cubs on Friday (Orlando Arcia RBI single), the first time in team history that they've had two walkoff wins within their first eight games of a season.
Bottom Of The Bag
Or, Other Stuff You Shouldn't Miss
⚾ Christian Villanueva, Tuesday: Third player in Padres history to go deep three times in a home game. Hunter Renfroe did it at Petco last September, while Phil Nevin (October 6, 2001) was the only one in the 35-year history of Jack Murphy/Qualcomm.
⚾ Kevin Pillar, Mar 31: First player in Jays history to steal second, third, and home in the same *game* (much less the same trip around the bases).
⚾ Welington Castillo, Monday: Eighth player ever to have a multi-homer game for both the Cubs and the White Sox. Joins Ron Santo, Geovany Soto, Vance Law, Jay Johnstone, Darrin Jackson, George Bell, and Sammy Sosa-- the last two of whom were traded for each other.
⚾ Jay Bruce, Thursday, and Adrian Gonzalez, Sunday: First two Mets ever to hit a grand slam at Nationals Park. David Wright (September 24, 2005) had the only one at RFK.
⚾ Gerrit Cole, Apr 1: First pitcher in Astros history to strike out 11 and allow ≤ 2 hits in his first appearance with the team. (Collin McHugh, Randy Johnson, and J.R. Richard got the 11 but not the 2.)
⚾ JC Ramirez, Saturday: First Angels starter to walk 5+ batters in first 2 innings and not emerge for the 3rd since Al Levine at Oakland, September 27, 2000.
⚾ Tigers, April 1/3/8: Fourth team in live-ball era to play three 1-0 games (win or lose) within their first eight of a season. Others were 1920 Braves and both the Reds and Cardinals in 1943 (against each other in their opening series).
⚾ Yoan Moncada, Thursday: First White Sox leadoff hitter to go 0-for-6+ with 4+ strikeouts since Ray Durham against the Cubs (which just makes it that much worse) on June 5, 1998.
⚾ Royals, Tuesday/Friday: Second time in team history recording a pair of 1-0 road victories in the same week. Other was July 2 (CLE) and 4 (TEX), 1977. Team record for a season is three.
⚾ Scooter Gennett, Mar 30: First Reds batter to have 4 hits in a game where the team got shut out since Cesar Geronimo vs Braves, June 21, 1974.
⚾ Josh Reddick, Tuesday: First Astro to have a grand slam and another multi-run HR in same game since Lance Berkman at the Metrodome, June 14, 2001.
⚾ Astros, Saturday: First 1-0 walkoff since August 30, 2006 (over Milwaukee). Had the longest drought of such a thing by any of the 30 teams (that "honor" now passes to the Red Sox).
Did You Know?
...that the previously-discussed Miles Mikolas is nicknamed "the Lizard King"? And if so, do you know why? (If you're squeamish, you may want to Google it first.)
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