4/16/67: Sen. Harrelson's "Veto"

CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEADLINE: PETERS NO-HIT BID VETOED BY SEN. HARRELSON

9,189 fans witnessed a no-hitter for 7 innings in the nightcap of the White Sox double-header with the Washington Senators. What they witnessed in the top of the 8th was a veto, a veto delivered by the distinguished Senator from South Carolina, Mr. Ken Harrelson.

Peters breezed through the first 7 innings of the nightcap, overpowering the Senators limp bats, who had just 3 hits in the first game, a 1-0 Sox triumph behind Joe Horlen. Then in the 8th, Harrelson took a Peters fastball and whizzed it past a leaping Pete Ward in left to veto Peters' no-no bid. Harrelson's double would end up being the only hit off Peters, who struck out 10 of Harrelson's fellow constituents, including Frank Howard to end the nightcap, a 1-0 Sox win. 

Peters, amidst popping flashbulbs in the Sox dressing room after the game said, "The Senators just weren't trying to hit anything I was offering, but I knew as the game progressed there would be that one Senator who would give it a poke. Harrelson just hit the daylights off that ball, Ward would not have made the play even if he tried, but that was it." Peters re-grouped, Harrelson would then advance to 3rd on an error by Tom McCraw at 1st of a Camillio Pascual grounder and got Eddie Brinkman to popup to short to end the inning. Peters retired the side in order in the 9th to finish the gem.

Harrelson told reporters after the game, "All I did was put it on the board."

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