On Aug. 7, the Yankees edged the Mariners, 5-4, at Yankee Stadium, a nail-biter typical of Aaron Boone’s 2021 group. Shortly before first pitch, however, a rather atypical event occurred across the ...

The World Series have been played 118 times, and only two no-hitters have been thrown. The first came 24,131 days ago, in Game 5 of the 1956 Fall Classic between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn ...

For the first time since 1981, two of the most storied franchises in sports, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, will be facing each other in the World Series. This matchup in the Fall ...

The Pacific Northwest has strong ties to three of the 24 perfect games thrown in the history of Major League Baseball – those by Felix Hernandez, Randy Johnson and Don Larsen. No-hitters are complete ...

Don Larsen, the journeyman pitcher who reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the New York Yankees when he threw a perfect game and the only no-hitter in World Series history, died ...

With only 24 perfect games in MLB history, the chances of seeing one in a given game are close to 1-in-10,000. Those odds indicate that seeing a perfect game in the World Series should be even more ...

Don Larsen's 1956 World Series perfect game for the New York Yankees is the stuff of legend. Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell just joined him, in a way, in MLB history. OptaStats shared ...

Oct. 8 has long been a High Holy Day on my baseball calendar. On that day 67 years ago, Don Larsen threw what was immediately proclaimed to be the Greatest Game Ever Pitched. For Larsen, a 27-year-old ...

In his first start of the 1956 World Series, Don Larsen could not complete two innings. He faced only 10 batters, and six reached base. By the time the game was over, the Brooklyn Dodgers had pelted ...

YOU GO GIRL. THIS MONTH’S HERO AMONG US IS DON LARSEN. THE FORCE BEHIND THESE FLAGS AND WREATHS AROUND DUNBARTON. ALL HONORING VETERANS. I THINK THE FLAGS AND THE WREATHS BEAUTIFY THE TOWN. FRIENDS ...