He Lost His No Hitter

[Subdeacon Joe]

The Astro's no hitter today got me to wondering about no hitters.  Specifically, how many pitchers had lost their 9 inning no hitters.  Turns out that there has only been one (out of something like 301 no hitters).  
 

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 On April 23, 1964 Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s became the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter and lose. In fact, he is still the only individual to throw an official (nine-inning) no-hitter and lose. 

There have been a few other teams that lost their no hitters:
 

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There is also one instance of a combined nine-inning no-hitter resulting in a loss, as well as a trio of eight-inning no-hitters that ended in an L. (Why eight innings? Because the pitcher(s) who threw it were on the road and their team didn't get to bat in the ninth. Those are not officially considered no-hitters, but we will count them here for the purpose of this exercise.)

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The rules were changed in 1991 so that for it to be officially a no hitter, you had to win the game.

[Chuck Steak]

In the late 50's a Pirate named Harvey Haddix pitched 12 innings of "perfect game" baseball against the Milwaukee Braves at a time when Hank Aaron was in his prime.  In the 13th inning, the lead off hitter, Felix Mantilla,  reached first base on an error.
...no more perfect game.

 

To eliminate the threat of a game winning home run, he walked Hank Aaron with hopes that he could get Joe Adcock to hit into a double play to get them out of the inning...

On the second pitch of his at-bat, Joe Adcok hit the ball into the right field bleachers.

Because of a base running error, Hank Aaron was called out and the home run was ruled a ground rule double but Mantillas run still counted.

Final score - Braves 1 / Pirates 0

 

After the game during an interview Haddix was actually surprised to find out that no one had ever thrown 12 perfect innings before - Haddix' response:

“It was just another loss, and that is no good.”