Steve Simmons Follows Up 2022 Perfect Game and Detroit MSBL Championship with No-Hitter

The Detroit Yankees, the defending Detroit MSBL 18-over champs, faced off against the Detroit Mets at the historic Mack Park in a game matching teams in the 18-over Pistono Division. This stadium was the home of the Negro League Detroit Stars. Recent renovations make it one of five standing negro league fields.

These two teams would play a tightly contested ball game where only two runs would be scored by the Yankees in the middle innings as a result of a baserunner obstruction call in a pickle between third and home and then an RBI single later in the game by Jared Janssen to make it 2-0.

The score would remain 2-0 throughout the game as Steve Simmons started on the mound for the Yankees. Coming fresh off a night shift in a local ER in Detroit for a 10am game, Simmons would navigate a formidable Mets lineup. Simmons would walk one in the early innings to scratch any idea of a perfect game and then walk one in the late innings.

Two great defensive plays would keep the no-hitter intact. A line drive snag at second base by Peloton specialist and golf aficionado Nick George and a leaping grab by Simmons off the mound on a high chopper up the middle that would’ve resulted in a hit in the late innings.