Matthew John Young (born August 9,1958) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Young played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball for a variety of teams over his career,was an MLB All-Star in his rookie year,and is best known for his unofficial no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians while a member of the Boston Red Sox.
Young pitched for the Red Sox for two seasons before being released days before the start of the 1993 season.[2] He became part of baseball history during his tenure with the Red Sox. On April 12, 1992, Young faced the Cleveland Indians in the first game of a doubleheader, allowed two runs on seven walks and an error by shortstopLuis Rivera[5] en route to the fourth no-hitter by a losing pitcher. On that day, Roger Clemens pitched a two-hit shutout in the second game of the doubleheader, giving Young and Clemens the Major League Baseball record for the fewest hits (2) allowed in a doubleheader. While Young sent the ball to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, Major League Baseball, in a rule created prior to the season, did not recognize the performance as a true no-hitter, as Young, playing for the losing team on the road, only pitched eight innings in his complete game loss.[6] According to Seymour Siwoff, who was on Baseball's Committee for Statistical Accuracy, the feat could not be listed with the "pure" no-hitters because "Young didn't get the chance to go out and pitch the ninth...who knows what would have happened if he did."[7] Had the no-hitter been officially recognized, it would have been the first no-hitter by a Boston pitcher since Dave Morehead did so in 1965, also against the Indians,[8] and was the fifteenth time, at that point, that a Red Sox pitcher had completed a game without allowing a hit.[9]
Young was released by the Red Sox in 1993, appeared in 22 games for the Indians in 1993, and finally spent a month with the Syracuse Chiefs, a minor league team in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, before being released a final time in September 1993.[2]
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