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    Paul Sullivan: MLB needs to change the definition of a no-hitter and reward the Cincinnati Reds pitchers for making histor

    The Cincinnati Reds threw a combined no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates and still lost Sunday, the equivalent of winning the lottery and losing your ticket in the wash. It will go down as a quirk of history, one of only six games in which a team lost while throwing eight or more no-hit innings. The 10,559 fans who witnessed the feat at PNC Park in Pittsburgh never will forget watching ...
    by Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune May 16, 2022 4 minutes
    James Leslie "Hippo" Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs in an early photo.

    The Cincinnati Reds threw a combined no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates and still lost Sunday, the equivalent of winning the lottery and losing your ticket in the wash.

    It will go down as a quirk of history, one of only six games in which a team lost while throwing eight or more no-hit innings. The 10,559 fans who witnessed the feat at PNC Park in Pittsburgh never will forget watching the lowly Pirates win without a single hit.

    Unfortunately, it won’t go down as an official no-hitter thanks to former Commissioner Fay Vincent and the eight-man committee he chaired in 1991 that changed the definition.

    “The committee was there, really, to clean up any ambiguities

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