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 Follow-up flops Recent pitchers have failed to find magic after no-hitters
Posted: Wednesday June 30, 1999 11:20 PM
By Desmond M. Wallace, CNN/SI Like many before him, St. Louis rookie pitcher Jose Jimenez couldn't match the 1938 feat of Johnny Vander Meer -- throwing back-to-back no-hitters. In fact, Jimenez went the route of most of the other recent pitchers in the start after throwing a no-no. Of the last six pitchers to throw no-hitters, none has been particularly successful in his next start. Not only has Vander Meer's record been safe, but no pitcher has even recorded a complete game in their next start. On Wednesday, Jimenez lasted only 4 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits and seven runs in the Cardinals' 11-3 loss in Houston.
David Wells, who threw the majors' last no-hitter before Jimenez for the Yankees last May, had the best outing of the bunch, allowing only five hits in seven innings in his next start in a 5-1 win over Boston. But recently, most of the others haven't been so fortunate, especially Pittsburgh's Francisco Cordova. Cordova, who combined with Ricardo Rincon for a 10-inning no-hitter for the Pirates in 1997, couldn't even get out of the third inning in his follow-up performance, yielding seven runs on eight hits in two-plus innings in a 9-5 loss to Cincinnati.
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