I just got through reading “Delaying the Game for Fun and Profit”… and… Hargrove earned himself a footnote in any future editions.

While I love baseballreference.com, there was something to be said about the heft and scale of the Baseball Encyclopedia. The last edition was about 50% larger than the Seattle white pages. Total Baseball, which replaced it before the internets usurped Total Baseball, was even larger.

I wonder what this means for the rotation. With Hargrove’s fawning over Jeff Weaver being his last starter he said (coming into the season) they wouldn’t skip any starters, even when the schedule would suggest passing over the # 5 arm.

I was really counting on seeing King Felix pitch (in person) on April 29th (what would be my first game at Safeco this season), and then opening the series with the Bombers in May.

This game last year was the last game of the season between the Red Sox and Orioles, a meaningless one. Devern Hansack threw five no-hit innings and the game was called early due to a monsoon.

There’s no record book worth reading that says Devern Hansack has pitched a no hitter. mlb.com says: There was a time when the effort would have been considered a no-hitter, as Hansack became just the ninth pitcher in Major League history to give up no hits in fewer than nine innings. But after Melido Perez did it with a six-inning “no-hitter” against the Yankees in New York in 1990, the rules were changed (in September 1991), thus wiping out some 50 such efforts.

You know, while I was looking that up, I found this

After an unprecedented nine no-hitters in 1990, and on the way to eight in 1991, including one in regulation broken up in extra innings, one ended early because of weather, and one where the losing pitcher gave up no hits, but errors caused the team to lose, and the home side did not have to bat, Major League Baseball changed the rules so that only no-hit games of nine or more full innings ending with no hits are officially recognized. No-hitters and perfect games that go into extra innings because the score is tied at the end of regulation play (including 0-0 ties) are only recognized if the game finishes without it being broken up. Rain-shortened “official game” no-hitters are also no longer recognized (though they always had an “asterisk” in the record books).

Now that’s Wikipedia, not always a bastion of accuracy, but I’m not sure where the offical rules about records are kept (as opposed to rules about how the games are played), so I don’t know if it’s a definitive answer to the question.