The
next no-hit gem profiled in my relatively new thread on the blog is Bob
Moose’s masterpiece on September 20th, of 1969, thrown against the
eventual World Champion New York Mets:
Moose was having himself an excellent season, coming into the game with a record of 11-3 with an ERA just about at 3.00.
Two hours and six minutes later he had himself the best start of his
career, throwing nine no-hit innings against three walks while striking
out six.
He’d finish the year with a record of 14-3, leading the league with an
.824 winning percentage while posting a final ERA of 2.91 along with six
complete games and four saves.
It was his finest season as a Big League pitcher, as he would finish his
career with a record of 76-71 with a 3.50 ERA over 289 appearances and
1303.1 innings pitched in 10 years.
Tragically, just seven years later, on his 29th birthday, Bob Moose was
killed in an automobile accident on his way to Bill Mazeroski’s golf
course in Rayland, Ohio, in a decade that was awful for such tragedies
in the sport (Mike Miley, Danny Frisella, Thurman Munson, etc).