ah Mr. Martinez
I'm going to have a regular, good old fashioned update later, but first I had to post this. It's from the blog, " The Soul of Baseball " by Joe Posnanski of the KC Star, and has made a list of the top 25 pitchers who would be likely to throw a no hitter on any given day. I had re-post the section on Pedro, because, there was nothing better than waking up in the morning and knowing we had Pedro on the mound that night. 3. Pedro Martinez No-hit quotient: 390 Did he throw a no-hitter? Yes, sort of. Did he have any close calls? Yes. It’s easy to confuse Pedro’s amazing games. He threw a one-hitter against the Reds in 1997, but that was the game when Bret Boone got the only single in the fifth inning. He threw the nine-inning perfect game against San Diego in 1995, but in the 10th inning he gave up a double to Bip Roberts (the Bipper!) and so that one isn’t in the record books as a no-hitter. There was the game in 1994 when he had a perfect game going into the eighth inn...