No-Hitter
There have been 256 no-hitters since 1897, measured across 225,734 games, an average of one occurrence every 881 games. The most recent non-perfect no-hitter by a single pitcher was Blake Snell on 2 August 2024; the first was Cy Young on 18 September 1897.
One pitcher completes at least nine innings and allows no hits; perfect games are a separate category.
This page counts complete-game no-hitters by one pitcher, excluding perfect games. Perfect games and combined no-hitters have separate lists. All three categories require at least nine innings; coverage is the corpus stated here, not a claim to every game ever played.
256recorded occurrences
1 in 881games · 1897+
1897first · Cy Young
2024-08-02most recent · Blake Snell
3y 4mlongest drought · 2003-04-27 to 2006-09-06
By decade
Recorded occurrences in each decade within this page’s coverage.
Done it most
Where it happens
256 of 256 occurrences join to a ballpark; the rest are this season, which the corpus has not absorbed yet. Counted by host park, so a road feat is credited to the ground it happened on.
Home clubs
Every occurrence (256 of them) · 251–256 of 256
| Date | Player | # | Game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899-05-25 | DPDeacon Phillippe | 1 | 6 | ↗ |
| 1898-08-21 | WTWalter Thornton | 3 | 5 | ↗ |
| 1898-07-08 | RDRed Donahue | 1 | 4 | ↗ |
| 1898-04-22 | JHJim Hughes | 3 | 3 | ↗ |
| 1898-04-22 | TBTed Breitenstein | 2 | 2 | ↗ |
| 1897-09-18 | 3 | 1 | ↗ |
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