It's sensible to think that at some point through the course of a Major League Baseball season, someone is going to toss a no-hitter. But on Saturday night in Oakland, against the Red Sox' high-powered offense? There was no predicting that.
You can’t predict baseball, but you can predict no-hitters—or at least, you can reasonably assume that, at least once a season, a starting pitcher will be jumping for joy with his teammates on a mound after nine innings with zeros on the board. MLB has seen at least one no-hitter every single season since 2005, and only three years in the last 30—’05, 2000, and 1989—have gone by without the feat being achieved. No-hitters belong to the game’s resident…
