No-hitters that went fewer than 9 innings
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Per the Elias Sports Bureau, a no-hitter needs to be at least nine innings in order to be official. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t seen performances of fewer than nine innings where a pitcher completed a game due to weather, or games that were scheduled to be shorter that were hitless.
There have been 26 such performances on record (since 1901), including Madison Bumgarner’s seven-inning outing against the Braves in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday.
Here’s a look at all 26 of those games.
Cubs inside-the-park home runs, 1901-15 By JohnW53 on Apr 23, 2021, 7:29am CDT +
Last year, I published a 4-part series of posts about the Cubs inside-the-park home runs.
The numbers cited in those posts were obtained using baseball-reference.com s Team Batting Event Finder. But the database that it searches goes back only to 1916.
Now, by examining the individual home run logs of every player who homered at least once for the Cubs from 1901-15, I have documented all of the team s inside-the-park homers the Cubs hit in the first decade and a half of the Modern Era.
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During those years, the Cubs hit
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