Season ticket stub from Sept 30, 1988. Orioles at Blue Jays. Dave Stieb takes a no-hitter to two outs in the 9th ining.

Paper loss etc.

Stieb took the hill, September 30th in Toronto and picked up exactly where he left off in Cleveland, the previous start. Dave Stieb silenced the Baltimore Orioles all the way until the very end, until he had a 2-2 count on pinch hitter Jim Traber.

Once again, with two outs and one strike away from collecting a no-hitter, Stieb’s no-hit bid was broken up in front of the crowd at the Skydome Exhibition Stadium. That’s the kind of tough luck most people can’t even fathom, and yet it was a reality for Dave Stieb.

Perhaps the most incredible fact about Stieb’s second straight one-hitter was that he only needed 90 pitches to get all 27 outs, so he averaged about 10 pitches per inning or just over 3 pitches per batter.