Johnny Vander Meer No Hitter Box Score on June 15, 1938 on Baseball Almanac

Johnny Vander Meer No Hitter Box Score on June 15, 1938

Ebbets Field turned on their lights for the first time ever and Johnny Vander Meer turned them ALL back off. However, Vander Meer was not as sharp during this no-hitter and walked eight (8) batters and needed some superb fielding by Lew Riggs on two (2) grounders and a great catch by Wally Berger on a deep fly hit by Pete Coscarart in the third inning. In the ninth inning it looked as if Vander Meer would not make it when he quickly walked two batters. He hung in, got two outs, and walked a third batter to load the bases with Bums. Leo Durocher came to bat and history was made when he hit a short fly to right center that was caught by Harry Craft for the final out.

"After the June fifteenth repeat of the performance against Brooklyn I was still just a novelty, a kid who had done a freakish thing." - Johnny Vander Meer

June 15, 1938 at Ebbets Field


LINE UP	POS	AB	R	H	RBI
Lonny Frey	2b	5	0	1	0
Wally Berger	lf	5	1	3	1
Ival Goodman	rf	3	2	1	0
Frank McCormick	1b	5	1	1	3
Ernie Lombardi	c	5	1	1	0
Harry Craft	cf	5	0	3	1
Lew Riggs	3b	4	0	1	1
Billy Myers	ss	4	0	0	0
Johnny Vander Meer	p	4	1	1	0
Totals		38	6	11	6


LINE UP	POS	AB	R	H	RBI
Kiki Cuyler	rf	2	0	0	0
Pete Coscarart	2b	2	0	0	0
a-Gibby Brack	ph	1	0	0	0
Johnny Hudson	2b	1	0	0	0
Buddy Hassett	lf	4	0	0	0
Babe Phelps	c	3	0	0	0
Goody Rosen	pr	0	0	0	0
Cookie Lavagetto	3b	2	0	0	0
Dolph Camilli	1b	1	0	0	0
Ernie Koy	cf	4	0	0	0
Leo Durocher	ss	4	0	0	0
Max Butcher	p	0	0	0	0
Tot Pressnell	p	2	0	0	0
Luke Hamlin	p	0	0	0	0
b-Woody English	ph	0	0	0	0
Vito Tamulis	p	0	0	0	0
Totals		27	0	0	0

a: Struck out for Coscarart in 6^th inning.
b: Struck out for Hamlin in 8^thth inning.

Double: Berger.
Error: Lavagetto 2.
Home Run: McCormick.
Left On Base: Brooklyn 8, Cincinnati 9.
Stolen Base: Goodman.
Triple: Berger.

Line Score

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	11	0
Brooklyn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2

Pitching Notes


PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Johnny Vander Meer	9.0	0	0	0	8	7


PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Max Butcher	2.2	5	4	3	3	1
Tot Pressnell	3.1	3	0	0	0	3
Luke Hamlin	2.0	3	2	2	1	3
Vito Tamulis	1.0	0	0	0	0	1

Losing Pitcher: Butcher.
Winning Pitcher: Vander Meer.

Game Notes

Attendance: 38,748.
Length of Game: 2:23.
Umpires: HP: Bill Stewart, 1B: Dolly Stark, 3B: George Barr.

Johnny Vander Meer No Hitter Box Score June 15, 1938 at Ebbets Field

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Fabulous Feats

No Hitter #1

This was the first and only time in history two (2) consecutive no-hitters were thrown and the first time one (1) pitcher had two (2) hitless shutouts during the same season

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