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No-hitters lost in the ninth: The Cubs’ Jamie Moyer, April 13, 1987

I had intended to write this series in chronological order, oldest to most recent, and I thought I’d done so until a commenter in one of the articles (and I apologize, I cannot find that as I write this) pointed out that this one hadn’t appeared when it should have.

Somehow, I missed this one when gathering the information from this list of no-hitters lost in the ninth inning in the expansion era (since 1961). Not wanting to slight Jamie Moyer, here’s the story of the one that almost made him famous (not that he didn’t eventually gain fame in other ways).