welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, october 2nd. mike barnicle, something very special happened last night in major league baseball. i think you can make a case, joe, for that being one of the two or three greatest pitching performances of all time. to throw a no-hitter in a situation like that, first game of the play-offs, his first play-off appearance. roy halladay after suffering for 12 years in toronto, he threw 104 pitches last night, 78 of those 104 were for strikes. it s unbelievable, mike. as you pointed out last night to your millions of twitter followers, this has only happened twice in the 120-year history of major league baseball. 1956. he actually pitched a perfect game. dale mitchell was the last batter for the brooklyn dodgers at that time plate. jocko con lynn was the umpire. i don t want to date myself.
these guys but you know them a hell of a lot better. this new england sports group that is going over and in the process of buying liverpool which for people who don t know, one of the great sports brands on the planet. new england sports ventures which is the parent company that owns the boston red sox, buying liverpool from the current owners tom hicks, the bankrupt owner of the texas rangers. he lost the texas rangers. now he s complaining that the cash on the table for the liverpool soccer club isn t enough. he needs the money i think to make a car payment. so that deal will go through. he s going to lose $200 million. our good friend joe jann that got me hooked on liverpool, for people that don t know, this is an amazing sports group that gets it done. the sox hadn t won in 80 years or so. they come in and two years later they win the world series. for americans, soccer is so
welcome to morning joe. it s thursday, october 2nd. mike barnicle, something very special happened last night in major league baseball. i think you can make a case, joe, for that being one of the two or three greatest pitching performances of all time. to throw a no-hitter in a situation like that, first game of the play-offs, his first play-off appearance. roy halladay after suffering for 12 years in toronto, he threw 104 pitches last night, 78 of those 104 were for strikes. it s unbelievable, mike. as you pointed out last night to your millions of twitter followers, this has only happened twice in the 120-year history of major league baseball. 1956. he actually pitched a perfect game. dale mitchell was the last batter for the brooklyn dodgers at that time plate. jocko con lynn was the umpire. i don t want to date myself. i watched that game, joe and mika, on a tv set that was set up in the window of a furniture store on main street in pittsburgh. we didn t have
i watched that game, joe and mika, on a tv set that was set up in the window of a furniture store on main street in pittsburgh. we didn t have a tv. guess what? nothing more exciting. that s far more exciting than watching on an 80-foot big screen tv. willie geist, it happens so rarely, so rarely. and this guy, as mike said, for people that don t follow major league baseball, 104 pitches. he s been great for 13 years. baseball people knew. but outside of baseball they didn t recognize him because he s lost up in toronto. he also came one batter away from a perfect game which would have been his second of the season. he walked one guy in the fifth inning on a 3-2 pitch. that was his only mistake of the night. only two guys have had two no-hit ners the history of baseball. i guess nolan ryan in 73 did it twice. now roy halladay. your new york yankees harold