GAME #41 (losers’ bracket):
NO-HITTER! The Athletics’ Steve McCatty pitched to the minimum 27 hitters en route to the near-perfect game. He retired the first 21 batters, then issued a leadoff walk to Steve Garvey in the eighth inning. But an A’s double play ended the inning, and McCatty finished off the no-hitter with his sixth and seventh strikeouts in the final frame. The Dodgers’ Jerry Reuss was perfect through three, but in the bottom of the fourth, Rickey Henderson led off with a walk. After the first out, Cliff Johnson singled, and Tony Armas blasted a three-run home run over the center field wall. Other than a single by Rob Picciolo in the eighth, those would be the only base-runners that Reuss would allow. McCatty hasn’t allowed a run in 18 innings in his two starts.
1981 APBA Double-Elimination Tournament
1981 LOS ANGELES DODGERS (0) AT 1981 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (3) 1981 LOS ANGELES DOD AB R H BI 1981 OAKLAND ATHLETI AB R H BI Davey Lopes 3 0 0 0 Rickey Henderson 3 1 0 0 Ken Landreaux 3 0 0 0 Dwayne Murphy 3 0 0 0 Dusty Baker 3 0 0 0 Cliff Johnson 3 1 1 0 Steve Garvey 2 0 0 0 Tony Armas 3 1 1 3 Ron Cey 3 0 0 0 Mike Heath 3 0 0 0 Pedro Guerrero 3 0 0 0 Jim Spencer 3 0 0 0 Rick Monday 3 0 0 0 Shooty Babitt 3 0 0 0 Mike Scioscia 3 0 0 0 Dave McKay 3 0 0 0 Bill Russell 3 0 0 0 Rob Picciolo 3 0 1 0 TOTALS 26 0 0 0 TOTALS 27 3 3 3 1981 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 000 000 000 -- 0 1981 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 000 300 00x -- 3 LOB--1981 LOS ANGELES DODGERS 0, 1981 OAKLAND ATHLETICS 1. HR--Tony Armas. SB--Cliff Johnson. 1981 LOS ANGELES DODGERS IP H R ER BB SO HR Jerry Reuss [L] 8.00 3 3 3 1 4 1 1981 OAKLAND ATHLETICS Steve McCatty [W] 9.00 0 0 0 1 7 0 SO--Ken Landreaux (2), Dusty Baker, Steve Garvey, Rick Monday (2), Bill Russell, Cliff Johnson, Rob Picciolo, Tony Armas, Rickey Henderson. BB--Steve Garvey, Rickey Henderson.
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