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ADKbrown	Post subject: Virgil Trucks Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:08 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	I just saw an odd item in "This Date in Baseball" in the NYT. On this day, the Tigers' Virgil Trucks posted his second no-hitter of the season in 1952--on his way to a sparkling 5-19 record. I looked up his stats for the year: 197 IP, 190 H, 129 K, 82 BB, 3.97. Not a great pitcher, but certainly better than his 5-19 record suggests. How did he manage two no-hitters? The Tigers, by the way, won both games 1-0. I guess it was the only way Trucks could win. You can read about Virgil here.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:24 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	Interesting, ADK! Thanks! I think I recall my father's telling me that Trucks used to be lights-out against the Yankees. I'll see if I can look that up at retrosheet.org.
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Oeditpus Rex	Post subject: Re: Virgil Trucks Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:54 pm
Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 1324 Location: N 36° 57' 9", W 121° 24' 2"	ADKbrown wrote: How did he manage two no-hitters? Same way Johnny Vander Meer did it in successive starts, I reckon — a lot of luck.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Virgil Trucks Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:01 am
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Oeditpus Rex wrote: ADKbrown wrote: How did he manage two no-hitters? Same way Johnny Vander Meer did it in successive starts, I reckon — a lot of luck. Vander Meer and Trucks are two of a handful of pitchers who have thrown two no-hitters in a season. I looked it up last night but left the list at home. I believe the following list is complete: 1. Larry Corcoran of Chicago back in the 1880s. 2. Allie Reynolds of the Yankees in 1950s. 3. Jim Maloney pitched two 10-inning stints of no-hit ball one year in the mid-60s but gave up a hit in the 11th. (He lost one game.) 4. Dean Chance pitched a no-hitter in the late 1960s after pitching a 5-inning perfect game earlier in season. Probably shouldn't count. 5. Nolan Ryan when he was with the Angels. Maloney, by the way, went on to pitch a no-hitter later in his career. If you count the first two, that gives him three. I also looked up the pitchers with three or more no-hitters in their career. That list also is short: Koufax, Ryan, Cy Young, Bob Feller. (I think that's it.)
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