Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas threw a no-hitter and lost 7-5

[mahatmakanejeeves]

{Edited} The box score shown in not complete. It shows the game only up until the middle of the seventh inning.

Donny Ferguson Retweeted

Y’all ever see a team give up 7 runs, still throw a no hitter and lose?

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Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas threw a no-hitter and lost 7-5

Chattanooga Lookouts score seven runs in one inning, without recording a hit, in unusual game

By Matt Snyder
12 hrs ago • 1 min read

One of the fun things about attending a sporting event is the possibility you'll see something you've never seen before. Little did the fans in attendance for the first game of a doubleheader between the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts (a Cincinnati Reds affiliate) and the Rocket City Trash Pandas ( affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels) know just how true that sentiment turned out to be on Saturday afternoon.

Final score: Lookouts 7, Trash Pandas 5.

Nothing special so far, other than the excellent team names and logos. But look closer at that box score and you'll see that the Lookouts recorded zero hits. Yes, the Trash Pandas pitchers threw a collective no-hitter but also coughed up seven runs. Amazing and ridiculous. How did that happen?

It was actually a seven-inning game (as all minor-league doubleheader games are) and the Trash Pandas had a 3-0 lead heading to the seventh. The Lookouts then went ...

• Walk
• Walk
• Pop out
• Walk
• Strikeout (it's still 3-0 with one out left in the game!)
• Walk
• Error, two runs score
• Hit by pitch, loading the bases with a 3-3 tie.
• Hit by pitch
• Hit by pitch (yes, again)
• Walk
• Wild pitch, running the score to 7-3.
• Hit by pitch
• Strikeout

Five hitters drew a walk, four hitters were plunked and one reached via error. What a catastrophic inning for the Trash Pandas, who did manage to tack on two runs in the bottom of the seventh for the 7-5 final score.

Coleman Crow was the starter for the Trash Pandas and allowed only two walks in six scoreless, hitless innings, and the bullpen -- and defense -- totally fell apart after he left the game.

To reiterate: A team threw a no-hitter and lost the game 7-5. Holy smokes.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Rocket City didn't bat in the bottom of the 7th?

Gotta hand it to the team owners. Had no idea they were so stretched to name their teams

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. That's not a complete box score. I need to add this:

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Five hitters drew a walk, four hitters were plunked and one reached via error. What a catastrophic inning for the Trash Pandas, who did manage to tack on two runs in the bottom of the seventh for the 7-5 final score.

Thanks for writing, and good morning.

[underpants]

3. Baseball is a static but crazy game.

I love stuff like this.

[House of Roberts]

4. I still don't understand why the Huntsville team chose such a fucked up name

and I live here. When I first heard we had a sports team named the Trash Pandas, I didn't even know what that meant.

[flying rabbit]

5. kicking

for Rocket City Trash Pandas. Best team name ever. Cool story as well.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. My guess as to the origin of the names is that it started as a trash raccoon in Arlington, Virginia.

AROUND TOWN

‘Trash Raccoon’ Rides Garbage Truck From Rosslyn to Falls Church

Tim ReganF ebruary 17, 2017 at 1:15pm

(Updated at 1:36 p.m.) A raccoon apparently took a wild ride through Arlington today.

Politico reporter Helena B. Evich first spotted an adventurous animal hitching a ride on the back of an American Disposal Services trash truck in Rosslyn a little after 11 a.m. this morning.

Naturally, she tweeted about it:

This raccoon is having a rough morning-just wanted some trash & ended up in Rosslyn!

>And yes I alerted the driver

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