Theodore Breitenstein's No-Hitter
The Cincinnati Reds held the Pittsburgh Pirates without a hit on April 22, 1898, winning 11–0. Theodore Breitenstein started the game for the Cincinnati Reds.
It was played at League Park II in Cincinnati. The announced attendance was 2,467. Charlie Hastings started for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hank O'Day umpired behind the plate. It was played in daylight, as every game was: the first night game in the major leagues came in 1935.
The game log records each side's starting pitcher rather than everyone who appeared, so where a no-hitter was finished by a second pitcher this page names the man who began it. No-hitters before 1898 are missing from this archive for a related reason: the game logs carry no hit totals at all for the 1880s and only part of the 1890s, so there is nothing to read them off.
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Sources
- Retrosheet, CIN189804220