Woody Williams of FFF Tosses the 11th No-Hitter in DBA History!

It was a lazy Tuesday afternoon. The season was in its first week. Some of the Rio Brazos crowd of 17,000 decided to take the day off of work to see the hometown Caddis begin their march into the post-season. They saw something different. They saw history.

Livan Hernandez was pitching for RBC. Woody Williams was on the hill for the visiting Falcons.

After five and a half innings, Fairfax was ahead 7-0. The game was pretty much over, except for the magic the FFF hurler was weaving. Through five, no hits. He had struck out five, and only one ball was hit hard; right at 3B Beltre. He had walked three, but two were erased on ground balls.

As Gregg Zaun swung at the 84th pitch from Williams, the crowd collectively drew in their breath. Zaun hit a screamer towards SS Jose Reyes. Jose leaped ... and caught it. Adrian Gonzalez then laced a sure single towards right fielder Luke Scott. Scott dove and somehow kept the no-no alive. Hopper grounded out weakly to end the inning.

It was three up, three down in the 7th. Woody was at 102 pitches by the end of the inning, but there was no way this veteran was getting pulled.

Mike Lowell started the 8th by swinging at a first pitch curveball, grounding weakly to third. Uggla and Giles followed by grounding out to Reyes at short, but neither was particularly difficult plays. After 8, 110 pitches, no hits.

To the 9th we go and Zaun leads off. This time, Williams gets the best of him, striking him out looking on three pitches. Gonzalez pops up for out number two. And Norris Hopper grounds out to Reyes to complete the no-hitter!

Woody Williams' line: 9 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 6K, 123 pitches, 28 batters faced.

In strat terms, the game was an anomoly of sorts. First off, only 11 of 28 rolls were on the pitchers card. 6 of the 11 were X-chances, but three of those had no hit possibility. Only two rolls the entire game had more than a 10% chance of a hit: SI 1-6 and RF-X (Scott was a 3).

Congratulations to Woody Williams and the Fairfax Fighting Falcons!