Braves Rewind: Whatever happened to...Kent Mercker?

Let's take a look at Braves from years past.Not often can a pitcher say he's done something not even a Hall-of-Famer has accomplished, but Kent Mercker can.

Mercker was the fifth overall pick in the 1986 draft, and while his career wasn't as successful as one might expect from a top-5 pick, he can lay claim to something Maddux, Glavine, or Smoltz have never done: he's pitched both a solo and a combined no-hitter. In 1991, he, Mark Wohlers, and Alejandro Pena blanked the Padres.

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Braves' combined no-hitter

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Then in 1994, Mercker pulled off the feat by himself, no-hitting the Dodgers in L.A.

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