EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally ran at BCB four years ago as part of a “no-hitters lost in the ninth” series.

I’m reposting it today because it’s the 50th anniversary of the Cubs breaking up Tom Seaver’s no-hit bid with two out in the bottom of the ninth, half a century ago today on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1975.

It’s late September 1975 at Wrigley Field, Game 158 of another lost season for the Chicago Cubs, playing out the string on a Wednesday afternoon in front of a “throng” of 2,113 souls.

Team aces Tom Seaver and Rick Reuschel are on the mound for the Cubs and the Mets.

Seaver starts mowing Cubs down, though not quite as well as he did in July 1969 when Jimmy Qualls broke up a perfect game bid in the ninth inning. This time, five Cubs drew walks off Seaver.

But Reuschel was ne

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