What year did 4 Oakland A's pitchers combine for a no hitter? Who were the pitchers?
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October 28, 1975.  Vida Blue went the first five, then Glenn Abbot threw one, Paul Linblad threw one, and Rollie Fingers threw the last two.  The A's won 5-0.
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I'd definitely be on the look-out for a replacement for Loaiza... If he keeps pitching (if he is allowed to by the A's) like he has been, any one of those pitchers you mentioned might be the better option this year...
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In the AL:\n\nRube Waddell (1) Philadelphia Athletics 07-01-1902 3rd\n \nSloppy Thurston (1) Chicago White Sox 08-22-1923 12th\n \nLefty Grove (1) Philadelphia Athletics 08-23-1928 2nd\n \nLefty Grove (2) Philadelphia Athletics 09-27-1928 7th\n \nBilly Hoeft (1) Detroit Tigers 09-07-1953 7th\n \nJim Bunning (1) Detroit Tigers 08-02-1959 9th\n \nAl Downing (1) New York Yankees 08-11-1967 2nd\n \nNolan Ryan (2 [1 in NL]) California Angels 07-09-1972 2nd\n \nRon Guidry (1) New York Yankees 08-07-1984 9th\n \nJeff Montgomery (1) Kansas City Royals 04-29-1990 8th\n \nPedro Martinez (1) Boston Red Sox 05-18-2002 1st\n \nIn th NL:\n\nName (Quantity) Team Date / Box Inning \nJohn Clarkson (1) Boston Beaneaters 06-04-1889 3rd\n \nPat Ragan (1) Brooklyn Dodgers 10-05-1914 8th\n \nHod Eller (1) Cincinnati Reds 08-21-1917 9th\n \nJoe Oeschger (1) Boston Braves 09-08-1921 4th\n \nDazzy Vance (1) Brooklyn Dodgers 09-14-1924 2rd\n \nSandy Koufax (1) Los Angeles Dodgers 06-30-1962 1st\n \nSandy Koufax (2) Los Angeles Dodgers 04-18-1964 3rd\n \nBob Bruce (1) Houston Colt .45s 04-19-1964 8th\n \nNolan Ryan (1) New York Mets 04-19-1968 3rd\n \nBob Gibson (1) St. Louis Cardinals 05-12-1969 7th\n \nMilt Pappas (1) Chicago Cubs 09-24-1971 4th\n \nLynn McGlothen (1) St. Louis Cardinals 08-19-1975 2nd\n \nBruce Sutter (1) Chicago Cubs 09-08-1977 9th\n \nJeff Robinson (1) Pittsburgh Pirates 09-07-1987 8th\n \nRob Dibble (1) Cincinnati Reds 06-04-1989 8th\n \nAndy Ashby (1) Philadelphia Phillies 06-15-1991 4th\n \nDavid Cone (1) New York Mets 08-30-1991 5th\n \nPete Harnisch (1) Houston Astros 09-06-1991 7th\n \nTrevor Wilson (1) San Francisco Giants 06-07-1992 9th\n \nMel Rojas (1) Montreal Expos 05-11-1994 9th\n \nMike Magnante (1) Houston Astros 08-22-1997 9th\n \nRandy Johnson (1) Arizona Diamondbacks 08-23-2001 6th\n \nJason Isringhausen (1) St. Louis Cardinals 04-13-2002 9th\n \nByung-Hyun Kim (1) Arizona Diamondbacks 05-11-2002 8th\n \nBrian Lawrence (1) San Diego Padres 06-12-2002 3rd\n \nBrandon Backe (1)\n Houston Astros\n 04-15-2004 8th\n \nBen Sheets (1)\n Milwaukee Brewers\n 06-13-2004\n 3rd\n \nLaTroy Hawkins (1)\n Chicago Cubs\n 09-11-2004 9th
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The last player to hit for the cycle was Randy Winn of the San Francisco Giants did it back on August 15th of 2005.  \n\nChad Moeller had one on April 27th but that was back in 2004.
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Greetings from inside the Yahoo Brain in New York City!\nHope you're catching the live webcast at: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/asktheplanet/brain.html !\n\nAs the others have said, that year was great because both the AL and NL leaders had the same number of home runs--49!  Andre Dawson and a presumably pre-steroids Mark McGwire were the talented twosome.\n\nHope this helps!\n\n--J.
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The Yankees played the A's in Oakland in 1968. Mantle didn't play on the 18th of August (Kosco played 1B), but did play on the 17th. Catfish Hunter pitched 8 innings and was relieved by Krausse. Mantle went 0 for 3. The box score doesn't get specific enough to know what batters Krausse faced, so it was one of those two.
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a no hitter is just like it sounds, the pitcher doesnt allow any hits in the game, but there can still be walks.  A perfect game is no hits, runs, errors, walks, etc. A perfect game is very hard to achieve. Only 17 pitchers have ever gotton a perfect game, here they are.\n\nCy Young \n\nAddie Joss \n \nCharlie Robertson \n \nDon Larsen\n \nJim Bunning\n \nSandy Koufax\n \nCatfish Hunter \n \nLen Barker \n \nMike Witt \n \nTom Browning \n \nDennis Martinez \n \nKenny Rogers \n \nDavid Wells\n \nDavid Cone\n \nRandy Johnson\n\nJohn Lee Richmond  \n\nMonte Ward
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I don't know of anyone of those drivers that play for the Oakland Baseball team! Do you?
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I know the A's have the AL record from 4 or 5 years ago when they won 20 straignt.  I believe the New York Giants hold the overall record with 25-30 way back in the day.
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In June of 1905, Christy Mathewson and Mordecai "Three" Finger Brown both took no hitters into the 9th inning...Brown gave up two hits in the 9th and lost, 1-0.\n\nThis was topped in 1917, when Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs squared off in a pitcher's duel that was a hitless, scoreless tie after 9 innings — the only time in baseball history that neither team has had a hit in regulation.\n\nThe Reds got two hits in the top of the tenth off of Vaughn, and scored the winning run. In the bottom of the tenth, Toney retired the side and recorded a 10-inning no-hitter.\n\nThe closest any game has come since was in 1965, when Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game and opposing pitcher Bob Hendley of the Cubs gave up only one hit to the Dodgers - interestingly, the winning run in the 1-0 game scored in the fifth inning  (after a walk by Hendley), and the game's only hit came in the seventh). Lou Johnson of the Dodgers was the only man to reach base (he walked and scored in the 5th, and hit a double in the 7th).
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You are thinking of Jim Abbott, who pitcher for the Angels and the Yankees. Abbott had two arms, but only had one hand. He would rest his glove on his stub hand, then flip the glove onto his good hand after he had thrown a pitch. When he caught a ball he would tuck the glove under his stub arm, pull the ball out, and throw it with his good hand. Hw was actually a pretty good pitcher for a few years - he one 17 games on year for the Angels and threw a no-hitter for the Yankees in 1993.
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Catfish Hunter (Oak), 22,\n  107 pitches May 8, 1968 Minnesota Twins, 0 at Oakland A's, 4 \nVenue: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, night game \nAttendance: 6298, Time: 2:28
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According to baseball-reference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL_2005.shtml) , there were three AL pitchers who hit homeruns in interleague play last year...\nC.C. Sabathia(CLE), Jason Johnson(DET), & Zack Greinke(KC)...i dont know who the last one to do it was though...\n\nAnd Bronson Arroyo plays for the Cincinnati Reds this year, NL team...Boston last year, but didnt hit any then
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Both are equally rare, but hitting for the cycle is slightly more common. There have been 269 ocurrences of players hitting for the cycle, and 232 official no-hitters. The number of no-hitters could be higher if you count those broken up in extra innings and the ones in shortened games (called before the 9th). Prior to 1991 no-hitters ended in extra innings or in shortened games were counted as official no-hitters.
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Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols And Jim Thome
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Believe it or not, it was Derek Jeter in 2000. There were no All-Star Game MVPs until 1962, despite the fact that the All-Star game started in 1933.
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Vida Blue of Oakland was the youngest in the modern era.  He was 21 years, 1 month when he no-hit the Twins in 1970.  Bud Smith, who someone else mentioned here, was the fourth youngest at 21 years, 11 months.\n\nAmos Rusie was the youngest in Major League history.  The modern era is anything after 1900.  He was 20 years, 2 months when he pitched a no-hitter for the New York Giants in 1890 against the Brooklyn Dodgers.\n\nMatt Cain of the Giants almost beat Blue's record last week when he took a no-hitter into the eighth inning against the Angels.  He's also 21, but I don't know how many months.\n\nAnother bit of trivia is that Rusie, "The Hoosier Thunderbolt" is the reason the pitcher's mound is 60 feet-6 inches from home plate.  When his career started, it was 50 feet from the plate. He was so dominant, they moved it back.\n\nA.J. Burnett was 24 years, 5 months when he pitched his no-hitter.  He is in the record book, though, as the only guy to walk nine batters in a no-hitter.\n\nNolan Ryan threw the most no-hitters with seven.  He also has the distinction of being the youngest player in the league his rookie year at the age of 19 and the oldest player in the league the last eight years running of his career, which ended at the age of 46 years, 1 month. But he was 26 years, 4 months when he pitched his first no-hitter in 1973.  He pitched two that year.