SEATTLE 6, MINNESOTA 1 IN SEATTLE
Date: Tuesday, July 28.
Batting stars: Kent Hrbek was 1-for-3 with a walk. Gary Gaetti was 1-for-3 with a walk.
Pitching star: Juan Berenguer pitched a scoreless inning, giving up two hits while striking out one.
Opposition stars: Mike Morgan pitched a complete game, giving up one run on four hits and three walks with no strikeouts. Phil Bradley was 4-for-4 with a double and a stolen base (his twenty-seventh), scoring twice and driving in two. Gary Matthews was 1-for-4 with a two-run homer, his second.
The game: Matthews hit his two-run homer in the third, giving the Mariners a 3-1 lead. Seattle added single runs in the fifth, seventh, and eighth. The Twins had only four hits.
Of note: Kirby Puckett was 1-for-4 with an RBI, making his average .326...Al Newman started at shortstop in place of Greg Gagne and batted second...Randy Bush was in right field and Tom Brunansky was out of the lineup...Joe Niekro started for the Twins and pitched six innings, allowing five runs on eleven hits and no walks...As unusual as complete games are these days, I would think a complete game with zero strikeouts is a fairly rare thing.
Record: The Twins were 55-47, in first place by two games over Oakland.
Player profile: Due to personal time constraints, the player profiles are taking a few days off.
A complete game with zero strikeouts has happened over a thousand times since 1913. Only 12 times since 2000.
The last time was Rick Porcello in 2014, who threw a shutout giving up just 4 hits. Brad Rake did it once. Tim Wakefield did it twice.
Only 11 shutouts that fit this criteria since 1988. 3 since 2,000.
Has there ever been a no-hitter with zero strikeouts? Nope. The closest is Francisco Liriano with 2.