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Rangers, Mariners and Indians Become First Trio to Be No-Hit Twice in a Season

It is not just that Spencer Turnbull of the Tigers no-hit the Mariners on Tuesday, and Corey Kluber no-hit the Rangers on Wednesday.

It’s that the Mariners and Rangers were no-hit for the second time this year, joining the Cleveland Indians to mark the first time in Major League Baseball history, three teams have been no-hit in the same season.

What’s more, those six no-hitters are all of the official (nine innings or more) no-hitters that have been attained this year. The only other season in which multiple teams were no-hit twice was in 2015 when the Mets and Dodgers came up hitless twice each.

While three teams have already been no-hit twice this year, and it happened to two teams in 2015, there have only been 16 times in MLB history that a team was no-hit twice in a season.

No team has ever been no-hit three times.

And to think, Kluber grew up in Coppell, Tex., just a few minutes up the road from the Arlington, Tex., the home of the Texas Rangers.

The most bizarre of the 16 times a team has been no-hit twice in the same season? It has to be the 1967 Detroit Tigers, who actually walked away from an April 30, 1967 game at Baltimore with a 2-1 win. The Tigers scored twice in the top of the ninth — without a hit.

Steve Barber opened the inning with back-to-back walks of Norm Cash and Rey Oyler, who gave way to pinch-runner Dick Tracewski and Jake Wood. After Early Wilson sacrificed the two runners to second and third, and Willie Horton was retired on a foul pop up, Barber threw a wild pitch, allowing Tracewski to score the tying run.

Stu Miller then relived Barber, and Don Wert greeted him with a ground ball to short, Luis Aparicio drawing an error that allowed Jake Wood to score what proved to be the winning run. Tigers reliever Fred Gladding retired the Orioles in order in the bottom of the ninth.