List of Nippon Professional Baseball no-hitters
In baseball, throwing a no-hitter is a pitching accomplishment in which one or more pitchers does not yield a hit in the course of one game. A no-hitter is rare in NPB, occurring 66 times since Fumio Fujimura's first cycle during the single league era in 1948. In terms of frequency, the cycle is roughly as common as a no-hitter (93 occurrences in NPB history based on the standard definition).
Eiji Sawamura threw the first two no-hitters in Nippon Professional Baseball history.
Unlike in Major League Baseball (MLB), combined no-hitters are not considered as official no-hitters by Nippon Professional Baseball.
Nippon Professional Baseball no-hitters
Michio Nishizawa was the first player to throw a no-hitter for the Nagoya Baseball Club.
In 2012, Toshiya Sugiuchi became only the second pitcher to throw a no-hitter in an interleague game.
Yūdai Ōno is the most recent player to throw a no-hitter in Nippon Professional Baseball, doing so in 2019.
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Inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
|---|---|
* |
Denotes a perfect game |
(x) |
Number of no-hitters recorded to that point (if the player recorded more than one) |
No-hitters with complete game shutout win
Combined no-hitters
Daisuke Yamai (left) and Hitoki Iwase combined to pitch a perfect game no-hitter in game 5 of the 2007 Japan Series to win the series.
| Players | Date | Team | League | Opponent | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miyoshi Nakagawa Shigezo Ishihara |
June 22, 1941 | Kurowashi Baseball Club | Japanese Baseball League | Nagoya Baseball Club | [2] |
| Takashi Eda Kotaro Mori |
August 2, 1941 | Hankyu Baseball Club | Japanese Baseball League | Nagoya Baseball Club | [2] |
| Tomoya Yagi Hisashi Takeda Michael Nakamura |
April 15, 2006 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | Pacific League | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | [3] |
| Daisuke Yamai* Hitoki Iwase* |
November 1, 2007 | Chunichi Dragons | 2007 Japan Series | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | [4] |
No-hitters when the opposing team scores
| Players | Date | Team | League | Opponent | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshikichi Miyaguchi Shotaro Hirano |
May 6, 1939 | Nankai Baseball Club | Japanese Baseball League | Hankyu Baseball Club | |
| Tadashi Kameda | August 3, 1939 | Eagles | Japanese Baseball League | Nagoya Kinko Baseball Club | |
| Minoru Murayama |
May 21, 1959 | Osaka Tigers | Central League | Yomiuri Giants | |
| Noboru Makino Shigemasa Yamamoto |
May 13, 1964 | Kintetsu Buffaloes | Pacific League | Nankai Hawks |
References
- General
- 無安打無得点試合 （ノーヒットノーラン） [Scoreless, No-Hit Games(No-Hitter)] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Archived from the original on June 20, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- "List of Hall of Famers". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- Inline citations
- "無安打無得点試合 (No hitter records)". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- 日本での継投によるノーヒットノーランは３度 [A no-hitter has occurred three times after relieving the starting pitcher in Japan]. Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Corporation. June 10, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- 【４月15日】2006年(平18) 残念…八木智哉 それでも史上初の延長無安打無得点リレー [(April 15, 2006) Bad luck, Tomoya Yagi, but it's still the first extra innings scoreless combined no-hitter in history]. Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Corporation. April 15, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
- Coskrey, Jason (November 2, 2007). "Dragons clinch Japan Series". The Japan Times. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
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