{"id":7269,"date":"2010-08-08T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2010-08-08T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:19:17","slug":"story-lines-terrific-for-first-no-hitter-in-6-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/story-lines-terrific-for-first-no-hitter-in-6-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Lines Terrific for First No-Hitter in 6 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

While major league baseball has been basking in perfect games and no-hitters this season, it had been nearly six years since the Atlantic League <\/strong>enjoyed such a feat before Southern Maryland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joe Newby <\/strong>and Jim Ed Warden <\/strong>combined to hold Newark <\/strong>hitless in a 3-1 victory at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium <\/strong>Wednesday night.\u00c2\u00a0 The story had a delicious number of sidebars, some of them courtesy of Notebook<\/em> reader Danny Phillips.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first thing that jumps out is the two-person nature of the no-hitter, but Newby was making only his fifth start of the season and his fifth since 2005 when he was a 23-year-old in his second season in the lower levels of the Oakland Athletics <\/strong>farm system (Vancouver, BC, Northwest League).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been past the seventh (inning) since college (Colorado State-Pueblo)<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newby said, adding that he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gassed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he started the ninth.<\/p>\n

Butch Hobson <\/strong>allowed the right-hander every opportunity to finish, but three walks and a hit batsman gave the Bears <\/strong>a run, and no one had been retired.\u00c2\u00a0 Warden wiggled his way past two veterans of major league play, Daryle Ward <\/strong>and Carl Everett<\/strong>, then induced Isaiah Kaaihue <\/strong>to hit into a force at second for his league-leading 20th<\/sup> save.<\/p>\n

Everett provided one of the game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ironies, as Danny Phillips reminded, because the 14-year major league vet had broken up the perfect game effort of the New York Yankees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mike Mussina <\/strong>with a pinch safety just out of the reach of Derek Jeter <\/strong>and Chuck Knoblauch <\/strong>with two out in the ninth at Boston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fenway Park <\/strong>September 2, 2001.<\/p>\n

The Atlantic League\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <\/strong>other no-hitters were complete-game efforts.\u00c2\u00a0 Rod Henderson <\/strong>of Long Island <\/strong>stopped Atlantic City <\/strong>3-0 May 25, 2001, and Newark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joe Gannon <\/strong>accomplished the feat 6-0 against Somerset <\/strong>August 17, 2004.<\/p>\n

* * * *WANT MORE INDEPENDENT BASEBALL COVERAGE?\u00c2\u00a0 Check out\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0www.AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com<\/a> and www.IndyBaseballChatter.com<\/a> * * * *<\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn That<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bridgeport <\/strong>has won eight of nine to move within one game of Liberty <\/strong>leader Southern Maryland <\/strong>and strengthen its hold on the first postseason wild card\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Matt Watson (Lancaster) <\/strong>has been getting more playing time in the Oakland <\/strong>outfield, logging 15 at-bats in the last eight days with three hits and two RBI.\u00c2\u00a0 He is 5-for-27 overall in his 11 games in the majors this season\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6The Atlantic League proved very prominent in a Pacific Coast League <\/strong>contest earlier this week when Michael Ryan (Somerset) <\/strong>got Salt Lake City (Angels) <\/strong>off toward a 5-2 win over Portland (San Diego) <\/strong>with a three-run double in the first and recent signee Ryan Houston<\/strong>, also a Patriots <\/strong>grad, got the final out when he struck out Wily Mo Pena,<\/strong> who was with Bridgeport <\/strong>until last month.\u00c2\u00a0 Pena has not hurt his chances of getting called up to the parent Padres,<\/strong> however, <\/strong>by hitting .340 (16-for-47) and an on-base percentage of .407 in 14 games.\u00c2\u00a0 He had a five-hit (all singles), four-RBI game at Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(These are excerpts from the Atlantic League Notebook.\u00c2\u00a0 Subscriptions to the full Notebook are available via <\/em>www.AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com<\/em><\/a> or <\/em>www.WirzandAssociates.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Wirz also writes a weekly column, the Independent Baseball Insider, as well as a blog, www.IndyBaseballChatter.com. The author <\/strong>has 16 years of major league baseball public relations experience with Kansas City and as chief spokesman for two Commissioners and lives in Stratford, CT.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While major league baseball has been basking in perfect games and no-hitters this season, it had been nearly six years since the Atlantic League enjoyed such a feat before Southern Maryland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joe Newby and Jim Ed Warden combined to hold Newark hitless in a 3-1 victory at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium Wednesday night.\u00c2\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6254,9],"tags":[4032,7697,581,2001,9679,6684,1568,493,9678,191,3257,444,9683,9681,3698,8014,5572,9680,1280,9682],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantic-league-notebook","category-general","tag-baseball-coverage","tag-butch-hobson","tag-carl-everett","tag-chuck-knoblauch","tag-danny-phillips","tag-daryle-ward","tag-fenway-park","tag-independent-baseball","tag-joe-gannon","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-mussina","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newby","tag-northwest-league","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-perfect-games","tag-riverfront-stadium","tag-rod-henderson","tag-s-joe","tag-vancouver-bc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t