My No Hitter

So earlier this year one of my best friends Ben Chamberlin had the wonderful experience of seeing the Red Sox’ Jon Lester throw a no hitter against the Kansas City Royals. Seeing this game in a venue such as Fenway Park, with a capacity crowd, with a bunch of most likely inebriated Bostonians, against a team who has a player named Jimmy Gobble (Who thankfully didn’t have to pitch that night), must have been quite an experience. And as I believe Ben has traded in his Dodger Blue for Red Sox Red (He is probably a member of a committee to get Jim Rice into the hall of fame), he probably really enjoyed himself.

I now consider myself a member of the pantheon of people who has witnessed a baseball no hitter and more. For the fifth time in modern major league history a team won a ball game without receiving a hit. Both Jared Weaver and Chad Billingsley pitched excellent games, with Weaver being done in by two very costly errors and a sacrifice fly. In the bottom of the eighth inning it was quite surreal, you wanted the Dodger to hit and score so we would have some insurance runs, but you also kind of didn’t want them to get on because of the uniqueness of it all.

Suffice to say, it was a lovely pitchers duel, and despite what the MLB office say I consider this to be a no-hitter. A no-hitter that the Dodgers won and didn’t even need to score a hit to do. Even when we really suck we can win. Think Blue!