SEATTLE (AP) - After years of waiting, the drought finally ended thanks to the Seattle Mariners' Hisashi Iwakuma.
No, not Iwakuma becoming just the second Japanese pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball - as important an accomplishment as that was - joining Hideo Nomo in exclusive company when he shut down the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.
That ended the run of 12 straight no-hitters - 11 individual and one combined - thrown by National League pitchers. Almost three years to the day that teammate Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Iwakuma finally ended the drought for the American League.