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TIL On August 23, 2017 Rich Hill pitched nine no-hit innings, only to lose the game on a walk-off home run by Josh Harrison in the 10th inning. The perfect game was broken up by a ninth-inning error, for the first time in MLB history. Only 303 no-hitters have been thrown in MLB history since 1876.

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