4/15/87 Classic: Brewers @ Orioles, Nieves no-hitter

[1992casey]

Juan Nieves vs. Mike Flannagan

 

Note that tonight's game is on DirecTV and DISH Network.

[1992casey]

Starting Lineups:

 Milwaukee Brewers Baltimore Orioles

1. Molitor 3b Gerhart lf
2. Yount cf Burleson 2b
3. Braggs rf C. Ripken ss
4. Cooper dh Murray 1b
5. Sveum ss Lynn cf
6. Brock 1b Knight 3b
7. Paciorek lf Lacy dh
8. Schroeder c Shelby rf
9. Gantner 2b Rayford c
Nieves p Flanagan p

[Patrick425]

I don't know if anyone is watching this game...but three coments I have so far as I watch this game.

 

1) It's a windy night. Did you see how Murray caught the popup in the first inning. He had a little trouble with the wind blowing it around. This may explain why Yount dives for the last catch, even though he may not have had to.

 

2) I didn't remember's J. Paciorik's great catch in the 2nd (?). That was definitly a neccesary dive and a no-hitter saver.

 

3) What's up with the American flag in CF? There are only like 15 stars on it??!?

[iluvlamp]

Will chime in and say that is my favorite defensive play ever..I love Patch....now back to 24

[crewcrazy]

I had no idea who Jim Paciorek was (this game was played before my time), so I looked him up on baseball-reference. Turns out '87 was the only year he made it in the majors, and he hit .228 in 101 AB's.

[dadofandrew]

I can't believe someone started a thread for this!!!!!!!!

 

Sorry, just can't help it.

 

As always, my first thought is how skinny all the players are. Weight training was not in, to say the least. Even Glenn Braggs looks normal.

[dadofandrew]

If I recall correctly, Paciorek could play 1B/3B/LF/RF...nice utility guy.

[iluvlamp]

Scroeder was a wee little man...lol...Now he's been grilling to much.

[BCZF]

I forgot how cold and windy this game was..This is great.. Although they are just showing the O's batting now, after showing the Brewers hitting the first couple..

[brewerjamie15]

As always, my first thought is how skinny all the players are.

 

My wife just said the same thing. She thought they were like Shrinky Dinks or something.

I gotta admit, they look like girly men.

[BCZF]

Look in the stands behind home plate and slightly left 3 rows up, is that Bud sitting there?

[Patrick425]

I don't think it's Selig...could be wrong.

 

Also, Yes the players are skinnier than the current MLB player, but I think the uniforms had something to do with that apperance as well. They tend to wear them a little baggier these days.

[hawing]

This is the most I've ever seen of this historic game. A few thoughts:

 

Juan Nieves entered this game with (I believe they said) a 10.13 ERA. This might prove that we should never stop believing. I mean, yeah, the team streak mojo was underway, but would anyone have expected a no-hit performance out of Nieves that night? Man oh man.

 

Despite that thought...wow, were there ever a lot of near hits! It's only the 5th and besides the Paciorek catch, there was the just-foul bunt and at least two deep-hit but barely foul flyballs.

 

I am loving the plugs for "Super 18" programming. That takes a person back!

 

Edit: I noticed the obviously old flag too. I'd be interested to know what was up with that.

[iluvlamp]

I grew up in Bay View..this was crazy...There was a power outage in the bottom of the ninth. Had to listen to Yount's catch in my mom's Ford Tempo...Anyone else remeber that? I

[hawing]

You guys don't want to know why I missed the live broadcast of this game.

 

But I'm going to tell you anyway. I had to attend a lecture for my German class (Advanced Conversation and Composition), which had nothing to do with our class except that it was delivered auf deutsch. The top was male infertility. Even almost 20 years later, I wish I were making this up. The point of the lecture was to get us accustomed to hearing lectures in German, for those going abroad.

 

I brought my Walkman, hoping to at least catch parts of the game, but my professor sat down next to me, which eliminated that possibility. I returned home to my dorm room to find a message my roommate had scrawled on our dry erase message board: "Laura: Thad called. Brewers got a no-hitter." (Thad was my S.O. at the time - a Pirates fan.) And that was how I found out about it.

 

Stupid lecture... http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif Otherwise I probably would have watched it at Memorial Union. (I didn't have a TV in my dorm room and the lounge TV would have had some girly programming on it, as I lived in an all-girls dorm.)

[JET15]

who are the announcers? The color guy does almost as much play-by-play. They must take turns like on radio. The other dude is the Bucks announcer, right?

[hawing]

Mike Hegan, I assume, as well as Jim Paschke.

[BCZF]

Yes Pashke is the Bucks guy..

[iluvlamp]

I loved hegan and paschke

[Jimbo]

Bunt single by Schroeder.

 

Anyone else remember Schroeder's bunt single against KC? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[1992casey]

I was just going to comment on the fine job by Mike Hegan and Jim Paschke.

 

Way back when, play by play and color duties were much more frequently 'split up' like most radio broadcasts tend to do.

[bsglorydays]

Looooooong Goooone, Greg Brock.

[BCZF]

Man, that Schroeder had wheels..http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[iluvlamp]

20 years ago an Murray still lokked old. Was he ever young?

[RightFieldCoder]

Schroeder also legs out a double. And at the time he was considered slow, but today it would be considered decent speed.

 

This has to be the luckiest no-no ever. There were several bombs that just went foul and several great plays at 3B and in the OF.

 

My uneducated guess about the flag: Baltimore is where the Star-Spangled Banner was written, so maybe it's a tribute to that. IIRC, the flag had 15 stars during the War of 1812.