West Side Grounds
aka West Side Park 1893 - 1915
Chicago, IL
Historic Aerials
What Was There
| Team | Years | Games |
|---|---|---|
| (1893 - 1915)
|
1738
|
|
| (1898)
|
1
|
No-Hitters
8/21/1898: Walter Thornton
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HBP | BR | BF | AB | IBB | GDP | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
Starter Age: 23.184
Rank among 323: 45
Opposing Starter: Brickyard Kennedy
Catcher: Tim Donahue
Plate Umpire: James McDonald
Attendance: 10,000
Time of Game: 1:33
Did You Know?
- When Orphans right fielder Danny Green laid down a bunt in the fifth inning Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy got down on his hands and knees and tried to blow it foul, much to the crowd's delight.
9/18/1903: Chick Fraser, W (11-16)
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HBP | BR | BF | AB | IBB | GDP | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
4
|
0
|
5
|
29
|
2
|
0
|
Starter Age: 30.023
Rank among 323: 237
Opposing Starter: Peaches Graham
Catcher: Chief Zimmer
Plate Umpire: Bob Emslie
Attendance: 2,500
Time of Game: 1:40
Did You Know?
- Opposing pitcher Peaches Graham spent seven years in the major leagues and logged 317 games in the field, mostly as a catcher, but this was the only game in which he pitched and he was the victim of a no-hitter.
- This was the second of two no-hitters caught by Chief Zimmer and it came exactly six years after the first (Cy Young vs. Reds on September 18, 1897 at League Park III in Cleveland).
6/13/1905: Christy Mathewson, W (9-3)
| Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HBP | BR | BF | AB | IBB | GDP | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
28
|
28
|
1
|
0
|
Starter Age: 24.305
Rank among 323: 85
Opposing Starter: Mordecai Brown
Catcher: Frank Bowerman
Plate Umpire: George Bausewine
Attendance: 8,000
Time of Game: 1:25
Did You Know?
- Through five innings neither team had a hit and the only men to reach base were Cubs left fielder Frank Schulte, who reached on Giants shortstop Bill Dahlen's error in the fourth inning, and Giants third baseman Art Devlin, who drew a walk with one out in the fifth.
- Schulte stole second and went to third on Billy Maloney's out, but that was as close as the Cubs got to scoring.
- Cubs pitcher Mordecai Brown reached base in the sixth on second baseman Billy Gilbert's error, but was doubled off first when Giants right fielder George Browne raced in and caught Jimmy Slagle's popup behind first base and threw to first baseman Dan McGann to complete the double play.
- Brown allowed only two hits through eight innings and struck out "Turkey Mike" Donlin three times, including in the ninth, before the Giants finally broke through for the game's only run on singles by Browne, McGann, Sam Mertes, and Dahlen.
- This was the second of two career no-hitters thrown by Christy Mathewson (vs. Cardinals on July 15, 1901 at Robison Field in St. Louis).
- Mathewson's 31 wins in 1905 are the most in a season among modern era no-hit pitchers and he's the only 30-game winner after 1892 to throw a no-hitter.
