A minor league team was one out away from finishing off a seven-inning no-hitter when it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. Up 3-0 with two outs in the final frame, the pitcher started losing control. He walked multiple batters, loading the bases. Then came a routine fly to center that should’ve sealed the game. The outfielder dropped it. All the base runners scored, and just like that, the no-hitter and the lead were both gone.
Things spiraled from there. A reliever came in and hit the first two batters he faced. Then he hit a third. Another run scored. Then he walked in another. The team gave up more runs on wild pitches and more hit batters. The crowd was stunned. Coaches looked completely lost. In total, they gave up seven runs without surrendering a single hit. Ninety feet worth of mistakes and mental breakdowns flipped a historic moment into a complete collapse.
The other team celebrated a win after doing almost nothing offensively. It goes in the book as a no-hitter, but also as one of the strangest and most frustrating losses anyone’s likely to see at any level of baseball.