2023-08-07 17:26:36
To pitch a game without allowing hits or runs is a feat. But the Nolan Ryan thing seems incredible, since he did it seven times. His dominance over the fearsome Major League hitters is increased by computing 13 challenges of just one single, 18 of just two and 30 of three, always in complete games of nine or more innings pitched!
As if that were not enough, they broke 18 no hitters from the seventh inning onwards: three in that one, 11 in the eighth and four in the closing one.
Of course, silencing entire teams required exquisite control in placing their shots.
In his Major League debut, on September 11, 1966, he struck out the Braves’ Pat Jarvis, the leadoff batter he faced. He was wearing the Mets jersey. So, Greg Myers was five months old; on September 17, 1993 he received the last “chocolate” from Ryan.
They say that seven players whom he struck out had children who made it to the Big Top and also fanned or were left with their rifles over their shoulders in front of him, including Sandy Alomar and his two sons, the Bonds and the Griffeys.
The player with the most seasons in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), with 27, left a mark of 5,714 strikeouts. The so-called Texas Express exceeded 300 in six seasons, and 200 in 15 opportunities. He pitched 215 games of 10 or more. He had four games of 19 strikeouts, one of 18, three of 17, eight of 16 and ten of 15. He even dished them out to 80 batters with the bases loaded.
In 1973, with the Angels, he threw his first two games without a hit or a run, winning 21 and breaking Sandy Koufax’s record with 383 strikeouts in a season.
The following season he struck out more than 300 opponents (367) for the third consecutive year, and added his third no hit no run. In 1975 he added the fourth and equaled Koufax.
The Houston Astros gave him, in 1980, the first salary in history of a million dollars per season. Already in 1988, a 41-year-old Ryan and the record in strikeouts of all time, signed with the Texas Rangers.
It was amazing how a probable tribute and farewell documentary, for his sixth no hitter (in 1990), at the age of 43, he became obsolete in May 1991, when he starred in one more, at 44: that day, everyone who stopped at home They took at least one “chocolate” as a souvenir.
Shortly before, on July 31, he had achieved his 300th success, based on 96-mile straights.
He retired in 1993 with 324 wins, a 3.19 ERA and an all-time low hits per nine innings percentage (6.6). In 1999 he entered the Hall of Fame, and is the fifth most voted to date (98.8%).
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