Pirates insider roasts Dodgers analyst for overlooking failed no-hitter history

In one of the most memorable regular season games in recent memory, the Los Angeles Dodgers found an excruciating way to lose to the Baltimore Orioles this weekend.

Starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched 8 2/3 no-hit innings, coming within one out of baseball immortality. He surrendered a home run to Jackson Holliday, losing his bid at history, but the Dodgers were still in a good spot when the bullpen entered the game.

Before they could record another out, though, the Dodgers ceded a walk-off to the Orioles.

Reporter Dusty Baker (WaveNews) made a hasty (but reasonable) assumption about the calamitous loss. Luckily, Pirates reporter Alex Stumpf of MLB.com was quick to note that error.

Of course, Stumpf is referring to an infamous Pirates-Dodgers game back in 2017. In that contest, fan-favorite utility man Josh Harrison broke up a no-hit bid by Rich Hill... in extra innings. Yes, despite Hill achieving nine no-hit innings against the Pirates, Pittsburgh still found a way to win that game.

Dodgers' latest meltdown evokes painful memories of infamous loss to Pirates

If it makes Yamamoto feel any better, he didn't make it through nine complete innings. Sure, losing your no-hitter with one out to go is excruciating, but Rich Hill actually made it through a full game, only to have to return to the mound in extra innings because the Pirates (behind eight shutout innings from starter Trevor Williams) had shut the Dodgers out through 10 frames.

Harrison, a 2017 All-Star and the Pirates' leadoff batter in that fateful 10th inning, assaulted a 2-1 fastball and barely sent it over the left field wall, handing the Dodgers one of the worst losses in their history.

Funnily enough, on that night of Aug. 23, 2017, Hill became the second pitcher in MLB history to lose a completed no-hitter (i.e., a no-hitter still intact through nine innings) on a walk-off. The other? Pirates legend Harvey Haddix, who brought a perfect game into the 13th inning against the Milwaukee Braves in 1959, only to lose it when Joe Adcock hit a walk-off sort-of home run that was eventually ruled a double due to a baserunning miscue.

Talk about painful. At least in Hill's case, he lost his perfect game against the Pirates in the bottom of the ninth on an error.

If it makes Dodgers fans feel any better, Los Angeles rebounded from that 2017 loss quite well. The team went on to make the World Series, losing in seven games to the trashcan-banging Houston Astros.

The Pirates, meanwhile, ended that season with a 75-87 record, good for fourth in the NL Central. At least they have that memory of Harrison's walk-off blast.