It’s one of the great ironies in recent baseball history that of the many All-Star and future Hall-of-Fame pitchers who made their way through Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, the only one to pitch a no-hitter was a man who started a total of 54 games in eight seasons in a Braves uniform.
Left-hander Kent Mercker no-hit the Dodgers in Los Angeles on April 8, 1994, 26 years ago this month (not to mention the 20th anniversary of another, more famous, moment in Atlanta’s baseball annals). Mercker’s masterpiece, a 6-0 shutout with four walks and 10 strikeouts, remains the most-recent no-hitter in Braves history and one of just three since the franchise moved to Atlanta in 1966.