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In September 1988 he took a no-hitter to two outs in the ninth and lost it on a bad-hop single, and did the same thing in his next start. The following August he was one out from a perfect game when Roberto Kelly doubled. On September 2, 1990, at Cleveland, he finally finished one, and it is still the only no-hitter any Toronto pitcher has thrown.

He won 175 games for the Blue Jays, more than anyone else has, and struck out 1,658 men in their uniform. Sixteen seasons gave him 176 wins against 137, a 3.44 earned run average, 2,895 innings, 103 complete games and 30 shutouts, with seven All-Star selections between 1980 and 1990.

He was the best pitcher in the American League for most of the 1980s by the measures used now and won no Cy Young Awards, partly because the clubs behind him did not score and partly because the voters of that decade counted wins. His back gave out at thirty-five. He came back for one summer at forty and then stopped. In 2004 he got seven votes of 506.