Dick Whitman
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Volquez no-hitter
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exmediahack
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Was off the grid and just heard about this.
Volquez always has a place with the Royals fans here. During the 2015 run, he was damn near heroic in the ALCS and WS. Threw a 37-pitch seventh to keep KC in the lead of the ALCS. Won a WS game the day his father died.
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Trivia time: Seven pitchers born in the Dominican Republic have thrown no-hitters. How many can you name?
Off the top of my head, I came up with Juan Marichal, Ramon Martinez, Francisco Liriano, Ervin Santana and now Volquez.
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Old-fogey memory of the Marlins' first no-hitter by Al Leiter in 1996, when I was working on one of the South Florida papers' sports desks: It was the same Saturday the ValuJet crash occurred in the Everglades, and we had to roll sports early (I think the deadline was 10:30 instead of 11:30) so the A section could accommodate crash coverage. Didn't seem like a big deal at first because it wasn't a busy sports night aside from the Marlins game, which started at 7. Then Leiter pitched the no-hitter and we had to scramble. But it was a fast game, the beat writer and the desk did a terrific job and we got the section out on time.
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Marichal, Andujar, Pedro Martinez, Volquez, Rijo
