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Baseball Records Registry
by Joseph J. Dittmar
McFarland, 1997 | Buy the book

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Maloney Wildly Effective

PITCHER THROWS SECOND
TEN-INNING NO-HITTER IN ONE SEASON

Cincinnati Reds (1) at Chicago Cubs (0)

Thursday, August 19, 1965, Wrigley Field

It had been a banner season for Jim Maloney. In April he tossed a one-hitter against the Braves, and in June he tossed 10 hitless innings against the Mets only to allow two hits and lose in the eleventh. Now, facing the Cubs in the first game of a doubleheader, Jim nailed down his first official no-hitter and became the first modern major-leaguer to hurl no-hit ball for 10 or more innings twice in the same season.

Chicago did not submit without a struggle due primarily to Maloney's wildness. The 6'2", 200-pounder threw 187 pitches, including 14 full counts. Jim walked 10 Cubs, hit one, and although he didn't allow a ball to be hit out of the infield until the eighth, he was in constant trouble:

After walking the bases loaded in the third inning, the 25-year-old escaped by getting Billy Williams to ground out, second to first.

In the fourth, Ron Santo threatened to extinguish the no-hitter when he hit a sharp ground ball which shortstop Leo Cardenas was able to reach and throw to first for the second out. Maloney then walked the next two hitters before retiring Don Kessinger on a called third strike.

Larry Jackson walked to open the eighth, was sacrificed to second, and advanced to third on a long fly by Doug Clemens. The wind snuffed the drive, enabling center fielder Vada Pinson to make the catch. Then, after intentionally walking Billy Williams, Maloney struck out Ernie Banks swinging.

Maloney loaded the bases again in the ninth on two walks and a hit batter, but Don Landrum popped out to Cardenas to end the threat.

The tenth opened for the Cubs with a familiar base on balls to Clemens. But Williams flied out, and Banks hit the first pitch into a game-ending double play.

Maloney retired the Cubs in order five times, struck out the side in the fifth, and had at least one strikeout in every frame but the tenth. His 12 strikeouts ran his season's total to 178 in 186 innings. Reds outfielders logged only three putouts.

The Cincinnati flame-thrower got all the offensive support he needed from Cardenas, who rapped a drive off the left-field foul pole in the top of the tenth. It spoiled an outstanding effort by Chicago's Larry Jackson, who threw only 109 pitches in the same ten innings.
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