No-hitter later ruled one-hitter, then later re-ruled no-hitter, then later re-re-ruled one-hitter
From Bloomberg:
[Luis] Mendoza, who pitches for the Omaha Storm Chasers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League, took a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Memphis Redbirds at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee, on July 18.
A deep drive by Memphis’s Tyler Greene glanced off the glove of leaping Storm Chaser left-fielder David Lough. The play was ruled a two-base error by the Redbirds’ official scorer, John Guinozzo, who decided after the game to change it to a double. He changed it back to an error a short time later.
“In rethinking it, he had changed it once shortly after the game, and then after giving it further consideration, went with his original ruling,” Dwight Hall, the Pacific Coast League’s director of operations, said in a telephone interview today.
Memphis appealed to the league office, which made its ruling of a double last night. It said in a statement on its website that it acted “in consideration of language included in the Official Baseball Rules, and with the benefit of additional time to review the play, including video replay and accounts of the play.”
On the plus side I guess, Mendoza did pitch a no-hitter in 2009, so he does already have one.