sportsfanatic

Sports has never ceased to amaze me with some of the rules that they put in place. Let me give you a great example of such a rule that MLB instituted a few years ago. It goes something like this. If a team allows no hits for an amount of 8 innings, yet does not pitch a ninth inning, then they have not thrown a no hitter. Whoever decided to make that rule up must have been no-hit a few times in their lifespan and still won but was sick of having the no-hitter labeled against them.

For all you great baseball fans out there, such a game took place last night. It was between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Dodgers were the home team and the combination of starter Jered Weaver and reliever Jose Arredondo who pitched a total of 8 no hit innings. The only run that was produced in this 1-0 win for the Dodgers was manufactured by way of 2 errors on the Angels. The first of which was on Weaver. it is a sad day for pitchers when they can produce such a feat and not get rewarded with anything more than the innings pitched. Hats off to the Halos anyway.

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