The LSD No-hitter....great story....

[Big Chee]

All I remember from the 70's was my parents partying very.....very hard.

Seems like everyone was having a good time back then.

 

[Trey Beamon]

****ing brilliant.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I was prepared to roll my eyes when I saw the title of the thread. ... I'm glad I clicked. That was cool.

 

[cranberry]

I saw it earlier today on a different site. Excellent.

 

[93Devil]

It was very good.

 

[Songbird]

Love the creativity.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

That was outstanding!

 

[I Should Coco]

Great stuff. Thanks for the link!

 

[golfnut8924]

This is great. I've always been humored by this story. I looked it up on Wikipedia and despite the 0 hits, he walked EIGHT guys that game haha. Also funny is he said by the fourth inning, he was convinced that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire and at one point he thought he was pitching to Jimi Hendrix, who was swinging a guitar for a bat.

On a side note, 4 years after this game, Ellis threw at the first 5 batters of a game to "make a point to his teammates" (about what I don't know) before the manager finally yanked him.

In this video, he talks about the rookie 2nd baseman named Dave Cash. He must've been on the bench because Wikipedia states that Bill Mazeroski was the 2nd baseman for this game.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That was great.

I wonder if Doc ever tried to pitch on LSD again?

 

[Sea Bass]

Wouldn't you?

 

[tmr]

Good job by the animator and the guys from No Mas for putting it together. No Mas makes some cool ****.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

This is great. I've always been humored by this story. I looked it up on Wikipedia and despite the 0 hits, he walked EIGHT guys that game haha. Also funny is he said by the fourth inning, he was convinced that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire and at one point he thought he was pitching to Jimi Hendrix, who was swinging a guitar for a bat.

On a side note, 4 years after this game, Ellis threw at the first 5 batters of a game to "make a point to his teammates" (about what I don't know) before the manager finally yanked him.

In this video, he talks about the rookie 2nd baseman named Dave Cash. He must've been on the bench because Wikipedia states that Bill Mazeroski was the 2nd baseman for this game.

A high walk total in a no-hitter is not unusual. Often the ball is moving at an abnormal rate, which makes it hard to hit and hard to control. There are 19 no-hitters with at least six walks. Jim Maloney (1965) walked 10 in a no-hitter, AJ Burnett walked nine (2001) and Johnny Vander Meer walked eight (1938). None of them claimed to be on LSD.

Ellis threw at all the Cincinnati Reds hitters because he thought the Reds hitters were too comfortable against Pittsburgh pitchers. At that point, the Reds had beaten the Pirates in two playoff series.

I dealt with Ellis and while he was an engaging character, he was also a bull****ter of the highest order. Based on what I know about him and the anecdotal evidence of friends who experimented with LSD, I am 99 percent certain that the LSD no-hitter is Dock's greatest bull****ting.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

I had always heard a story that in 1976, Ellis (with the Yankees) faced Reggie Jackson (with the Orioles) for the first time since Jackson hit that mammoth home run during the '71 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium. Ellis' first pitch hit Jackson in the head.

I'm not sure how true that is, because I went to Retrosheet.org and couldn't find a game that season where Ellis hit Jackson. Maybe it's a different year, but that story - if true - is something else.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Awesome ...

"Baseball today: San Diego vs. Pittsburgh."

"Starting pitcher ... YOU, SUCKA!!"

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I had always heard a story that in 1976, Ellis (with the Yankees) faced Reggie Jackson (with the Orioles) for the first time since Jackson hit that mammoth home run during the '71 All-Star Game at Tiger Stadium. Ellis' first pitch hit Jackson in the head.

I'm not sure how true that is, because I went to Retrosheet.org and couldn't find a game that season where Ellis hit Jackson. Maybe it's a different year, but that story - if true - is something else.

Ellis hit Jackson with a pitch in a game on June 27, 1976. It was Jackson's fourth plate appearance of the game and the Yankees were leading 4-0 in the eighth inning. It was the fifth time Jackson batted against Ellis that season.

 

[buckweaver]

I dealt with Ellis and while he was an engaging character, he was also a bull****ter of the highest order. Based on what I know about him and the anecdotal evidence of friends who experimented with LSD, I am 99 percent certain that the LSD no-hitter is Dock's greatest bull****ting.

This.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

There's no effin' way Ellis pitched. much less threw a no-hitter, on LSD, unless he was at the tail, tail end of the trip.

If that happened, then Lary Sorenson threw a complete game with a .48 BAC as well.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Mythbusters should do an episode trying to debunk this. Get a sample of five pitchers (college, minor leaguers), hide all their identities, give a few LSD and give a few a placebo. See what happens.

 

[Armchair_QB]

There's no effin' way Ellis pitched. much less threw a no-hitter, on LSD, unless he was at the tail, tail end of the trip.

If that happened, then Lary Sorenson threw a complete game with a .48 BAC as well.

As bat**** crazy as Dock Ellis is he probably THOUGHT he was on LSD that day.