tedr:
With Garza’s no-hitter today, there have been 5 no-hitters this season. Even crazier is that this is only one fewer than the number of one-hitters this year, apparently. And one of those was Armando Galarraga’s (should-have-been) perfect game.
So it should be 6 no-hitters to 5 one-hitters this year. Crazy.
Lots of speculation as to if the absence of steroids is what’s behind this.
Steroids don’t help you hit the ball. Maybe it helps you hit the ball farther, but that’s questionable in itself. Players tend to use steroids to heal faster from injuries, so maybe you’ve got a causation if you can show that players who hit well have spent more time on the DL than in years past, and that’s due to a lack of steroids accelerating the healing process. Again, pretty dubious.
