Seattle Mariners’ Lodge Peculiar No-Hitter

Tag-team no-hitters, oh my. The Seattle Mariners’ pitching staff authored what has to be one of the weirdest no-hitters in Major League history Friday night when Kevin Millwood and five relievers combined to stop the Los Angeles Dodgers’ bats cold in a 1-0 win. Millwood was the lead singer and the other quintet was the backup band.

There used to be an implicit blood-brother pact between managers and pitchers that a hurler would never be yanked if he was pitching a no-hitter, unless he could no longer stand up or his arm was as weak as a strand of linguini….