Postseason No-Hitter!

hefalumps · 06-21-2012, 03:09 PM

Awhile back with an earlier version of OOTP, I managed to pitch my first no-hitter with Rollie Fingers. Just a few moments ago, Alex Fernandez missed a perfect game by one HBP as my team recorded its second ever no-no!

The best part... it was to open the ALDS!

I was curious if anyone else had gotten a no-hitter in the postseason. After playing out every game in over 30 virtual seasons over several versions of OOTP, I've never seen a no-hitter in the postseason. This was a treat!

Hopefully we can carry the momentum to a series victory. We're the underdogs...

GlennCraven · 06-21-2012, 03:57 PM

I've only played a season and a half, but I hope it happens for me someday -- and not against me.

I did have a AAA pitcher throw a no-hitter in a game that obviously was simmed, not managed. I went to check the box scores like I do each day and I thought, "Cool, a shutout, and no help from the bullpen. ... Wait! ... They didn't get any hits against him!"

The guy had been in the bigs before and never performed (remotely) well enough to stick. And he still finished the AAA year only 8-6, 4.95. ... He was 2-3, 4.10 this season when I tossed him in as a "make this work now" guy in a trade with an expansion team. He's 0-4, 8.03 out of their bullpen.

Still, Sean O'Sullivan will always be remembered as the first player at any level of my Royals' franchise to throw a no-hitter.

EvilGenius · 06-21-2012, 05:01 PM

Had it happen to me once a while back. Fictional player named Tom Parker. Great pitcher, he was definitely had the stuff to do it. The fluky part was that his stamina was 30 (out of 100). The entire time he was on my team (over 10 seasons) I had to micromanage his pitch count. So the surprising part wasn't that he able to do it, but that he was able to last long enough in the game to do it.

As a sidenote: At least in OOTP 11 when it happened, you have to manually go into Commissioner mode and edit the resulting news report on his History page to specify that it happened in a playoff game.

A No Hitter is a big enough deal even if you're playing the worst team in the league, to do it against a playoff caliber team is huge. So make sure you modify the news report to reflect that.

bwburke94 · 06-22-2012, 04:14 PM

It's happened twice IRL now, so it isn't that rare. Once every 54 years, so we're due in 2064.

EvilGenius · 06-22-2012, 05:22 PM

I read somewhere that the recent explosion of Perfect Games (and by extension, No Hitters) aren't as unexpected as once thought.

Go back to when 16 Major League teams playing 154 games.

Now there are 30 teams playing 162 games. Nearly twice as many teams playing more games.

In addition, there are twice as many playoff games thanks to Divisional play. Twice as many opportunities for a random event to happen.

And like most statistical models, there is rarely a uniform distribution of seemingly random events. Numbers tend to clump together.

Regardless, they're still exciting. I was at David Cone's perfect game against the Expos, it wasn't even a sold out game and I thought we'd bring the stadium down with the cheering. We even booed the home team when they started a rally in the 8th -- "get the heck off the field and let Coney finish this thing!" I can only imagine what it was like when Halladay threw one in the playoffs.

Pineywoods OOTPer · 02-27-2013, 12:43 PM

Just had my first no-hitter ever....I been playing OOTP 3 years and in this solo league, in my 24th season...and it's Game 7 of the 1964 World Series by Sandy Koufax, playing for the Chicago White Sox.

fhomess · 02-27-2013, 02:01 PM

One of the PEBA's best young pitchers pitched a no-hitter in the opening round of our division series in 2015. SP Manuel Corona was just 26 when struck out 10 and walked just 3 in Game 2 of the series. It was the second no-hitter of his career, something only one other PEBA pitcher has done.

In his VERY NEXT start, Corona ruptured his elbow, requiring elbow ligament reconstruction surgery and an 11 month trip to the DL. His team rallied and went on to win the Planetary Extreme Championship without him, while he collected his 2015 PEBA Golden Arm (Cy Young equivalent) with that very arm in a sling.

Now, a little more than 2 years after his surgery, Corona is once again one of the top pitchers in the league. He's still trying to recapture the magic of his Golden Arm season, but he's certainly one of the best in the league.

The_Offspring187 · 02-27-2013, 02:48 PM

Threads like this are why I love this game and series. If only they somehow incorporated a virtual message board in the game that generated comments about baseball (that'd be cool if they even used some of our usernames among randomly generated ones haha) it would be almost too real lol.

06-21-2012, 03:09 PM	#1
hefalumps All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,391	Postseason No-Hitter! Awhile back with an earlier version of OOTP, I managed to pitch my first no-hitter with Rollie Fingers. Just a few moments ago, Alex Fernandez missed a perfect game by one HBP as my team recorded its second ever no-no! The best part... it was to open the ALDS! I was curious if anyone else had gotten a no-hitter in the postseason. After playing out every game in over 30 virtual seasons over several versions of OOTP, I've never seen a no-hitter in the postseason. This was a treat! Hopefully we can carry the momentum to a series victory. We're the underdogs...

02-27-2013, 12:43 PM	#6
Pineywoods OOTPer All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: White Oak, Texas Posts: 726	Just had my first no-hitter ever....I been playing OOTP 3 years and in this solo league, in my 24th season...and it's Game 7 of the 1964 World Series by Sandy Koufax, playing for the Chicago White Sox. __________________ The Pineywoods OOTPer Senior Office Manager, 18th Circle of Heck. (YES, I am falling and I hear the meows)

02-27-2013, 02:01 PM	#7
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,693	One of the PEBA's best young pitchers pitched a no-hitter in the opening round of our division series in 2015. SP Manuel Corona was just 26 when struck out 10 and walked just 3 in Game 2 of the series. It was the second no-hitter of his career, something only one other PEBA pitcher has done. In his VERY NEXT start, Corona ruptured his elbow, requiring elbow ligament reconstruction surgery and an 11 month trip to the DL. His team rallied and went on to win the Planetary Extreme Championship without him, while he collected his 2015 PEBA Golden Arm (Cy Young equivalent) with that very arm in a sling. Now, a little more than 2 years after his surgery, Corona is once again one of the top pitchers in the league. He's still trying to recapture the magic of his Golden Arm season, but he's certainly one of the best in the league. __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.

06-21-2012, 03:57 PM	#2
GlennCraven Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 223	I've only played a season and a half, but I hope it happens for me someday -- and not against me. I did have a AAA pitcher throw a no-hitter in a game that obviously was simmed, not managed. I went to check the box scores like I do each day and I thought, "Cool, a shutout, and no help from the bullpen. ... Wait! ... They didn't get any hits against him!" The guy had been in the bigs before and never performed (remotely) well enough to stick. And he still finished the AAA year only 8-6, 4.95. ... He was 2-3, 4.10 this season when I tossed him in as a "make this work now" guy in a trade with an expansion team. He's 0-4, 8.03 out of their bullpen. Still, Sean O'Sullivan will always be remembered as the first player at any level of my Royals' franchise to throw a no-hitter.

06-21-2012, 05:01 PM	#3
EvilGenius Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 153	Had it happen to me once a while back. Fictional player named Tom Parker. Great pitcher, he was definitely had the stuff to do it. The fluky part was that his stamina was 30 (out of 100). The entire time he was on my team (over 10 seasons) I had to micromanage his pitch count. So the surprising part wasn't that he able to do it, but that he was able to last long enough in the game to do it. As a sidenote: At least in OOTP 11 when it happened, you have to manually go into Commissioner mode and edit the resulting news report on his History page to specify that it happened in a playoff game. A No Hitter is a big enough deal even if you're playing the worst team in the league, to do it against a playoff caliber team is huge. So make sure you modify the news report to reflect that.

06-22-2012, 04:14 PM	#4
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,519	It's happened twice IRL now, so it isn't that rare. Once every 54 years, so we're due in 2064.

06-22-2012, 05:22 PM	#5
EvilGenius Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 153	I read somewhere that the recent explosion of Perfect Games (and by extension, No Hitters) aren't as unexpected as once thought. Go back to when 16 Major League teams playing 154 games. Now there are 30 teams playing 162 games. Nearly twice as many teams playing more games. In addition, there are twice as many playoff games thanks to Divisional play. Twice as many opportunities for a random event to happen. And like most statistical models, there is rarely a uniform distribution of seemingly random events. Numbers tend to clump together. Regardless, they're still exciting. I was at David Cone's perfect game against the Expos, it wasn't even a sold out game and I thought we'd bring the stadium down with the cheering. We even booed the home team when they started a rally in the 8th -- "get the heck off the field and let Coney finish this thing!" I can only imagine what it was like when Halladay threw one in the playoffs.

02-27-2013, 02:48 PM	#8
The_Offspring187 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Tennessee Posts: 483	Threads like this are why I love this game and series. If only they somehow incorporated a virtual message board in the game that generated comments about baseball (that'd be cool if they even used some of our usernames among randomly generated ones haha) it would be almost too real lol.