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>> o/t: Pitt Pirates walk off 10th inning HR to beat Dodgers (1 to 0) to end the Dodger
>> pitcher's no hit game was outstanding. I don't recall ever listening/witnessing a
>> ball game on radio where a team almost being no hit managing to win a ball game with
>> only 1 hit while opposing team had both multiple hits and baserunners with chance to
>> win ball game and yet lose to a team with only 1 hit. A HR hit.

>That might be the only time you've personally witnessed such a thing, but I'm sure you've
>heard of the Pirates' own Harvey Haddix taking a perfect game against the Milwaukee Brewers
>into the 13th inning on May 26, 1959, only for the Pirates to lose when they gave up an
>error, a walk, and a home run that was ruled a double because of bad baserunning. And that
>was allegedly *despite* the Brewers having stolen the Pirates' signs and *knowing* what
>Haddix was going to pitch.

Yep. Whenever Dodgers would visit Pirates at Three Rivers stadium and when Haddix was pitching coach for Chuck Tanner in mid 1970s to mid 1980s, Dodgers tv and redio broadcaster Vin Scully would always remind Dodger fans about that particular Pirates game whenever Haddix had to walk to pitchers mound to talk to the Pirates pitcher.

The thing impressed me was Pirates starting pitcher Trevor Williams (along with Pirates relievers) and Pirates defense were fortunate enough to prevent Dodgers from scoring any runs even though Dodgers had bases loaded three different times and Dodgers had 8 hits. And Pirates didn't have any baserunners (perfect game) until 9th when Mercer reached on a Dodger error and Pirates won the game in 10th with one hit being Josh Harrison's HR hit. imo Wednesday's game was an extremely rare event and probably won't happen again for another 50 to 100 years.

I don't know if there had been any previous baseball game results in the past like what happened in Wednesday's game. There may have been one or two previous games, but Baseball-Reference web site doesn't have box score results going back to early 1900s or earlier.