On May 18, 2012, Harrison's one-out single in the ninth broke up Verlander's no-hitter. This time, he became the no-hitter-sealing out for Scherzer, aka Johnny Vander Near.
Only that seventh-inning leadoff single by Carlos Gomez last Sunday now prevents Scherzer from matching the legendary back-to-back no-hitters by Cincinnati's Johnny Vander Meer in, yes, June 1938.
"We watched that one-hitter a couple of different times," Clint Hurdle said of Scherzer's near-gem in Milwaukee's Miller Park, alluding to part of his Pirates' prep work for facing him.