In a wild scene in Minnesota last night, Kenta Maeda went from three outs away from a no-hitter to taking a no-decision in what turned out to be a 12-inning, 4-3 win for the Twins over Milwaukee.
Finishing the no-no would've been a special moment for Twins fans, and especially for Maeda, who threw a career-high in pitches to even get to the point where Eric Sogard led off the ninth with a bloop single to end the possibility.
Special for many…but apparently, not for Al Dukes.
"No-hitters aren't interesting anymore, I need a perfect game," Al opined on Wednesday morning's Warmup Show on WFAN.
Jerry Recco was incredulous at that thought, even more so when he found out that Al's prediction is that MLB might see all of two no-hitters this season out of 900 scheduled games.
"That's not interesting?" Jerry asked. "Out of all the games in baseball?"
Al and Jerry went back and forth about the topic, with Al Googling the record for no-hitters in a season, and Jerry looking into the fact that with more than 220,000 baseball games in MLB history, there have been 303 games officially currently classified as no-hitters.
"Nolan Ryan has like half of those," Al joked, with Jerry responding that Ryan could still probably throw one now, even as a senior citizen.
Jerry, of course, still feels that the no-no is special, given that "one one-hundredth of one percent" of all games in MLB have ended with one team going hitless. But what say you? Is a no-hitter special? Are you Team Al, needing more, or are you Team Jerry, eating it up, especially considering there is still one active MLB team (sup, San Diego) that has never thrown one?
Today @Alsboringtweets said (on the warmup show that we do between 5a-6a every morning) throwing a no-hitter isn't really special anymore. (There have only 303 of them in almost 220,000 MLB games)....I'm curious if you agree or disagree....
— Jerry Recco (@JerryRecco) August 19, 2020You can hear the exchange in the video above by refreshing the page, and check out today's edition if Al & Jerry's Postgame Podcast, which includes the full Warmup Show audio, below!
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