The A’s are hit with a no-hitter for the second time in four days as Boston’s Howard Ehmke 

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On September 7, 1923 — 1923 – The A’s are hit with a no-hitter for the second time in four days as Boston’s Howard Ehmke strikes out one while pitching a 4 – 0 no-hitter against them. “Ehmke’s zippy crossfire came out of the shortstop’s chest like bad news from a gatling gun” (Philadelphia Public Ledger). Preserving the no-hitter is rival pitcher Slim Harriss, who hits the ball to the wall in the 7th and winds up on second base, but he is called out for failing to touch first base. An 8th-inning liner by Frank Welch is fumbled in LF and he reaches first. The liner is initially ruled a single but changed before the inning is over. Ehmke has now won six straight over the A’s this season. For Ehmke’s batterymate, Val Picinich, it is his third no-hitter, each with a different team.

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