Game 106: D' X Pirates 0

Now, you may be watching that Beavis and Butthead video thinking, "Damn, is Pat playing that AGAIN?!?" If that is indeed what you're thinking, you should keep two things in mind: The Pirates get shut out a lot. I spent a good half hour typing things like "futility" and "super epic fail" into YouTube trying to find a clip representative of getting no-hit by Yusmeiro Petit. At some point in time, someone is going to no-hit the Pirates. Let's assume for a second that a no-hitter is a completely random event that occurs once per season in the National League (this is hypothetical). Thus, one team randomly gets no-hit every year in the NL, while the remainder of the teams in the League do not. That means that in 2009, the Pirates have a 15/16 chance of not getting no-hit. That means that the odds are quite in favor of not getting no-hit, but then the Pirates haven't been no-hit since 1971. Using the two assumptions made at the beginning of the ...