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Anonymous ID: 04898d May 9, 2021, 3:24 p.m. No.13622795   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Even no-hitters are fake during the fake Creepy Admin.

 

Why Madison Bumgarner's seven-inning no-hitter wasn't really a no-hitter

Apr 25, 2021

David Schoenfield

ESPN Senior Writer

 

As far as baseball controversies go, maybe Madison Bumgarner's seven-inning no-hitter on Sunday doesn't quite rank up there with the designated hitter, Kevin Cash's decision to take out Blake Snell, or whether Jackie Robinson was safe when he stole home in the 1955 World Series.

 

Or maybe it does. In fact, I just misspoke. Bumgarner's game is not officially a no-hitter since it was not a nine-inning game, even though:

 

  1. Bumgarner officially earns credit for a complete game and a shutout.

 

  1. Since it was the second game of doubleheader between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Atlanta Braves, it was a scheduled seven-inning game, not a nine-inning game.

 

The confusion dates back to a 1991 ruling from Major League Baseball's committee on statistical accuracy that defined a no-hitter as "a game in which a pitcher, or pitchers, gives up no hits while pitching at least nine innings. A pitcher may give up a run or runs so long as he pitches nine innings or more and does not give up a hit."

 

Prior to that change in the official records, no-hit games of fewer than nine innings were considered no-hitters.