No-Hitting and One-Hitting the Same Team

Angels righty Jered Weaver no-hit the Minnesota Twins on May 2, 2012. A little over a year later, the Twins were back in Anaheim and Weaver dominated again. He gave up a first-inning single to Doug Bernier, then retired 19 straight during a two-hit, nine-strikeout scoreless masterpiece.

Watching him today got me thinking about pitchers that have thrown a no-hitter and a one-hitter against the same team.

Using the Baseball-Reference Play Index, I compiled this list. It only includes pitchers to throw a no-hitter and one-hitter against the same team since 1914.

Pitcher	Opponent	No-Hitter	One-Hitter
Mark Buehrle	Rays	7/23/2009	8/3/2001
Nolan Ryan	Blue Jays	5/1/1991	4/23/1989
Dave Stieb	Indians	9/2/1990	9/24/1988
Burt Hooton	Phillies	4/16/1972	4/29/1982
Jim Colborn	Rangers	5/14/1977	5/9/1973
Rick Wise	Reds	6/23/1971	6/13/1973
Don Wilson	Reds	5/1/1969	9/17/1971
Jim Maloney	Astros	4/30/1969	9/26/1969
Jim Maloney	Cubs	8/19/1965	7/23/1963
Sandy Koufax	Mets	6/30/1962	6/20/1965
Warren Spahn	Phillies	9/16/1960	8/1/1953
Lew Burdette	Phillies	8/18/1960	6/16/1957
Hoyt Wilhelm	Yankees	9/20/1958	5/22/1959
Virgil Trucks	Senators	7/22/1952	5/15/1952
Bob Feller	Tigers	7/1/1951	6/27/1939
Bob Lemon	Tigers	6/30/1948	5/29/1951
Ewell Blackwell	Braves	6/18/1947	5/15/1951
Bob Feller	White Sox	4/16/1940	8/8/1946
Jim Tobin	Phillies	6/22/1944	4/23/1944
Carl Hubbell	Pirates	5/8/1929	6/5/1943
Lon Warneke	Reds	8/30/1941	4/17/1934
Bill Dietrich	Browns	6/1/1937	5/29/1941
Dazzy Vance	Phillies	9/13/1925	9/8/1925
Jesse Barnes	Phillies	5/7/1922	7/4/1919
Jimmy Lavender	Giants	8/31/1915	6/14/1916

A couple of notes here:

• Buehrle's no-no was a perfect game.
• Ryan threw seven no-hitters and 12 one-hitters, but he didn't make the list until his final no-no. He pitched a no-hitter or one-hitter against every A.L. team except the Rays (of course) and Angels.
• Hooton's no-hitter was as a Cub and his one-hitter was as a Dodger ten years later.
• Colborn was with the Brewers for his 1973 one-hitter and threw his no-hitter as a Royal.
• Maloney and Feller make the list by accomplishing the feat against two different teams.
• Maloney, Trucks, Tobin and Vance pitched their no-hitter and one-hitters in the same season.
• Vance did it in consecutive starts! He one-hit the Phils at Ebbets Field on September 8, 1925, then somehow outdid himself when Philly came back to Brooklyn five days later.

Only one pitcher has pitched a no-hitter against the same opponent twice. Addie Joss of the Cleveland Naps pitched a perfect game against the White Sox on October 2, 1908. On April 20, 1910 he blanked Chicago again, missing a perfecto by two walks and an error behind him. Sadly, he would be dead within a year. Just two days after his 31st birthday, Joss died of tubercular meningitis. His brilliant career was tragically cut short, and it took decades for him to get Hall of Fame recognition because he was one year shy of the ten-season requirement. It was eventually waived in his case and he was finally enshrined in 1978.