Getting no-hit leaves Royals feeling empty

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Fenway and No Hitters
Published 5/20/2008 by Joe Posnanski at Joe Posnanski
... had to hurt. If you looked around Fenway you mostly saw black — people were all bundled up in their winter coats — and the sound was like a wailing, like the wind blowing through your garage, and then Jon Lester reared back and threw the most unhittable pitch of an unhittable night, a 96-mph fastball, high and away, rising, Callaspo swung, missed by two feet, and the no-hitter was done. Then there were celebrations and moping, hugs and cell phone calls and all that stuff I wrote about here. ...

Baseball Today: Tuesday, May 20
Published 5/20/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... ." Ouch. In the mainstream media, Joe Posnanski -- saying "[there] are not many places in the world that are quieter than the losing clubhouse after a no-hitter" -- gets the post-mortems from the no-hitees. (Kansas City Star) ...

Thursday before Memorial Day Weekend Reading
Published 5/22/2008 by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
... has another curiously long post touching on, in no particular order, Mike Piazza, Yaz, and whether Pedro Martinez’s 9 perfect innings should count as a perfect game. He notes that after he wrote this column , in which he included Pedro on a list of great no-hitter hurlers, he received a number of emails from people (including yours truly) saying, “Hey, wait a minute! that’s not technically a perfect game!” Joe posits that while that is technically true, he considers it a no-hitter, “record books be damned,” since Pedro pitched 9 perfect innings (he gave up a double in the ...