You'd think, for the amount of times we've all seen or heard of no-hitters being broken up, that one-hitters would be relatively common. The Brewers have only had one no-hitter in franchise history, but the one-hitter hasn't been a common occurrence either. Yovani Gallardo and John Axford's combined one-hitter tonight was only the 15th in franchise history. Here's the others, in reverse chronological order:
Date | Result | Pitchers |
2008-08-31 | W, 7-0 | CC Sabathia |
1997-07-28 | W, 1-0 | Steve Woodard and Mike Fetters |
1996-04-13 | L, 3-2 | Steve Sparks and Graeme Lloyd |
1993-04-23 | W, 3-0 | Cal Eldred and Jesse Orosco |
1988-06-15 | W, 5-1 | Teddy Higuera, Mark Clear, Chuck Crim and Dan Plesac |
1987-09-01 | W, 2-0 | Teddy Higuera |
1985-08-19 | W, 4-1 | Danny Darwin |
1985-06-29 | W, 6-0 | Moose Haas |
1977-06-18 | W, 4-2 | Gary Beare, Sam Hinds and Bill Castro |
1973-05-09 | W, 5-1 | Jim Colborn |
1973-04-13 | W, 2-0 | Bill Parsons and Jerry Bell |
1972-08-01 | W, 9-0 | Skip Lockwood |
1972-06-26 | W, 3-0 | Skip Lockwood and Ken Sanders |
1972-05-30 | W, 3-1 | Skip Lockwood |
Cal Eldred actually lost his no-hitter on the 2nd batter of the night. As for how Steve Sparks managed to lose a one-hitter: it pays not to walk two batters before one gives up a home run.