Don’t you dare call it a ‘no-hitter’.

The Angels held the Dodgers hitless Saturday night, but according to MLB regulations, it won’t be officially called a ‘no-hitter’.

Why, you ask?

Because the Dodgers won, and since they were playing at Chávez Ravine, they didn’t bat in the ninth…so it wasn’t a ‘nine inning’ game according to the rulebook.

 

According to MLB rules: An official no-hit game occurs when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings. In a no-hit game, a batter may reach base via a walk, an error, a hit by pitch, a passed ball or wild pitch on strike three, or catcher's interference.

 

That blows. What do you tell your kids?

 

 

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