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From: pfeiffer@uwvax.UUCP (Phil Pfeiffer)
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Subject: Re: A Question
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 14:22:49 EDT
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> Has any pitcher ever pitched a no hitter and lost the game?
> 
> Has any pitcher ever pitched a perfect game for nine innings and
> not gotten the win?

I don't remember all the details, but here goes ...

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. the Milwaukee Braves, sometime during the summer
of 1959.  The game must have been played in Milwaukee, since the Braves
won it in the bottom of the thirteenth.  Harvey Haddix pitched twelve
perfect innings, losing the perfect game in the bottom of the thirteenth
when Don Hoak, a golden-glove-caliber third baseman for the Pirates, committed
an error.  The next batter (Eddie Mathews, I believe) won the game for the
Braves with a book-rule double.  There was something about Mathews originally
being credited with a home run.  If a book-rule double won the game for
Milwaukee, then Hoak must have committed a two-base (throwing?) error.

Also, as I recall, Bob Skinner, the Pittsburgh left fielder, hit a ball in
the fifth or sixth inning that would have been a home run had the wind not
been blowing in.

Anyone remember who was pitching for Milwaukee?  That would have been during
the Spahn era, no?

--- Phil Pfeiffer