\n\tIn nearly three and a half decades as a franchise, the Florida\/Miami Marlins have had six different pitchers throw a no-hitter. Perhaps the most bizarre came on this day 25 years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tFor the Florida Marlins at Qualcomm Park on May 12, 2001<\/a>, pitcher\u00a0A.J. Burnett<\/a> walked nine batters, hit another and barely threw more strikes than balls. In the end, however, he became the third pitcher in Marlins history to toss a no-no in a 3-0 win over the San Diego Padres. For the night, Burnett threw 129 pitches\u201465 strikes and 64 balls.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAfter Burnett pitched around a two-out walk in the first inning, the Padres had perhaps their best scoring chance in the second. Ben Davis<\/a> and Bubba Trammell<\/a> drew back-to-back walks to open the frame. A flyout by Damian Jackson<\/a> moved Davis to third with one out, but two pitches later, Burnett was able to get Donaldo M\u00e9ndez<\/a> to ground into a double play to end the threat.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the top of the third, Florida gave Burnett all the offense he would need. Charles Johnson<\/a>\u2019s two-run double scored Eric Owens<\/a> and Preston Wilson<\/a> to give the Marlins a 2-0 lead.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the third, San Diego threatened again. Two walks and a wild pitch put a pair of runners in scoring position with one out, but Burnett again hunkered down. Burnett struck out Ryan Klesko<\/a> swinging before getting Dave Magadan<\/a> to fly out to centerfield.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe fourth required another Houdini act from Burnett. After a second walk to Trammell and hitting Jackson, Burnett again got out of the inning unscathed following consecutive strikeouts of M\u00e9ndez and opposing pitcher Wascar Serrano<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n\tFlorida added to its lead with a run in the top of the fifth. Burnett followed with consecutive 1-2-3 innings.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe right-hander worked around a one-out walk in the seventh. After a pair of walks brought the tying run to the plate with one out in the eighth, Burnett inducted consecutive pop-outs from Davis and Trammell.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe bottom of the ninth would be one of Burnett\u2019s most economical innings of the evening. After getting Alex Arias<\/a> to fly out, Burnett fanned pinch hitter Santiago\u00a0P\u00e9rez for his seventh and final strikeout of the night. Three pitches later, Phil Nevin<\/a> popped out to Florida shortstop \u00c1lex Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a> to complete the wild no-hitter.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Burnett kept San Diego without a hit, the Marlins finished with seven. Wilson had three of those knocks. Serrano took the loss for the Padres despite allowing just one earned run in seven innings.\n<\/p>\n \n\tBurnett\u2019s no-hitter served as the first for the Marlins since Kevin Brown no-hit the San Francisco Giants in June 1997. In baseball history, only Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 had more walks in a no-hitter than Burnett\u2019s nine. Burnett\u2019s lone career no-no came on this day a quarter-century ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In nearly three and a half decades as a franchise, the Florida\/Miami Marlins have had six different pitchers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,2487,472,1286,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-790958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-highlights","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-miami-marlins","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116561385236453274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}