No-hitters that went fewer than 9 innings Share 5:46 AM UTC Share share-square-407001 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.