Left-hander Madison Bumgarner’s dominant performance last weekend in Atlanta has ignited debate about whether his outing should go in the record books as an official no-hitter despite it occurring in a seven-inning game.
Count Hall of Famer and Diamondbacks legend Randy Johnson among those who aren’t so sure it should count.
“Uh, I don’t know,” Johnson said during an in-game appearance on the Diamondbacks’ broadcast Friday night on Bally Sports Arizona. “Let’s play nine innings. Isn’t that the way this game is meant to do and been done for the last 100 years?”
It was pointed out to Johnson during the broadcast that six times in his career he had no-hitters broken up in the eighth or ninth innings.