Thoughts on tonight's Verlander no-hitter:

To date, Lillian has seen or heard two Brewers/Tigers games: We took her to one last June that saw Detroit win 10-1, the other being tonight's game. (Note: neither one saw her listening to 9 innings of baseball, and I really don't think she was listening that intently to tonight's radio and TV broadcasts, as we were running errands throughout the first 6 innings)

During tonight's game, the Jack Morris no-hitter in '84 was mentioned as the last Tigers no-hitter, which I can actually remember seeing on television,at least the last few innings thereof, due to it being part of NBC's old Saturday Game of the Week broadcast. Yes, I feel a little old in recalling when the Saturday Game of the Week was typically the only outlet for regular season games not involving the Orioles.

The other no-hitter I recalled was the '87 Juan Nieves Brewers/Orioles game, which just happened to be a random night in my youth when I decided to turn on the O's broadcast network. Can't remember which station it was, but I think it was a year when either Sunny 94.3 out of Warrenton or one of the Culpepper stations broadcast the Orioles package. At least I think it was an FM broadcast, and I think the O's were on 1190 AM in Baltimore and 1500 WTOP at the time.

Labels: baseball, no-hitters, radio, waxing nostalgic