OoTS 5-19-08

[stevejrogers]

Jon Lester, no hitting the Royals through 8. Sox are leading 7-0.

[stevejrogers]

In games that matter to the Mets, Nats leading the Phillies 4-0 in the 7th.

[metirish]

ESPN will go to the Lester game for the ninth inning , I'm nervous for him...

[stevejrogers]

One out to go. Runner on third (leadoff walk, advanced on successive ground outs.

[stevejrogers]

Strike three and he has his NO HITTER!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

NICE!!!


Wonder what that feels like....

[Willets Point]

Yay!

[metirish]

What a story Lester is , huge congrats to him

The 18th no-hitter for the Red Sox.....wow.

[Willets Point]

4th no-hitter caught by Varitek. I wonder if that is a record.

[metirish]

Who was the catcher for Koufax?


The Sox like the yankees were very smart to hold on to their young pitchers.....

[seawolf17]

Ray Schalk caught four.

http://members.tripod.com/bb_catchers/catchers/schalk.htm

[Elster88]

Lester had cancer right? What kind?

[Guest AG/DC]

That's great.

How cool would it be to do against a big-league team?

Edited May 19, 2008 by Guest

[metirish]

Elster88 wrote: Lester had cancer right? What kind?

lymphoma , scary stuff.

[nymr83]

seawolf17 wrote: Ray Schalk caught four.

Koufax pitched no hitters in 1963, 64, 65, and 66, the dodgers' starting catcher all four years was Roseboro, though i don't know that he necessarily caught them all.

someone should check nolan ryan's catchers for the angels and astros.

[nymr83]

AG/DC wrote: That's great. How cool would it be to do against a big-league team?

hey the Royals are like 3 games out

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah, I know. Cheap shot I couldn't resist. Bad Edgy. BAD!

Would have been better if it were the Yankees.

[G-Fafif]

Mets angle: Jeff Torborg caught Koufax's perfect game, Ryan's first no-hitter plus Bill Singer's no-hitter. Roseboro caught Koufax's first two no-hitters, Doug Camilli caught the third.

Ryan's no-hitters caught by: Torborg; Art Kusnyer; Tom Egan; Ellie Rodriguez; Alan Ashby; John Russell; and Mike Stanley. Seven no-hitters, seven receivers. No personal catchers for Nolan.

None of his no-hitters caught by Grote, Martin or Dyer.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I associate Lester with his defeating the Mets in one of his first appearances ever.

I remembered it as him striking out 10 or 11, actually it was only 5, but they all came at killer times and were accomapnied by fist pumps as the Mets played like shit all night. This is a funny IGT to re-livve, we all agreed it to be one of the worst losses of the year:

http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/3800/f14_t3864.shtml

]This has officially become the worst game of the year. Milledge falls down on a routine fly ball, two runs score. Milledge pussies his way on base by taking a ball off the armor. Reyes hits into a couldabeen DP, only to reach base on a failed transfer, only to break his back two batters later after getting foolishly sent home and sliding terribly. Wright later whiffs with the bags juiced and two outs against a cocky rookie's 150th pitch, and Soler comes out to summarily allow 3 runs, the last two on a ball that landed somewhere in New Hampshire. Bugglyfuckscumbag

[TransMonk]

I'd agree that was one of the worst losses of 2006 up to that point.

Little did we all know that the Pedro meltdown that landed him on the DL would take place the next day.

[seawolf17]

I had some really insightful comments during that IGT.

[Guest AG/DC]

Ugh, the game that broke Peter Gammons brain.

I brought almost nothing to that IGT. Truly a Soler-iffic performance.

I like that parody in the post-game though.

[metirish]

TraaansMonk killing the Bahston accent all IGT.

[Willets Point]

I was at that game. With the Red Sox sweeping the Mets it looked that they were a team that would steamroll into the playoffs and the Mets might struggle. Turned out the other way around.