The four Red Sox-thrown no-hitters in my lifetime:

Jon Lester, last night: Saw beginning of game at home in greater Boston area, but was playing 9 PM softball game when it ended.

Clay Buchholz, 9/1/07: Watched game on TV with my parents at their house in greater New Haven area. By some crazy coincidence, two of my partners-in-Red Sox-ness, my friend Pat and my girlfriend Kim, weren't able to watch, so I got to break the news to each of them over the phone when the game ended.

Derek Lowe, 4/27/02: Watched from the right field boxes! It was supposed to be Pat and I and our girlfriends at the time. His came with us, but mine called in sick. So I do have an unused ticket to that game, from back in the ticket-ripping days. I remember kids announcing the batters all game long as it was Kids' Opening Day, and not saying anything about the no-hitter in the crowd, except for when Pat had to say to his then-girlfriend, "you know what's goin' on here?" Then we saw a girl puke outside the park after the game.

Hideo Nomo, 4/4/01: Slept through it. For a 7 PM game? Yup. I was working overnights then. So some days I'd sleep in the afternoons and get up at 10 PM to go to work. I was in the car, and I caught the post-game. I heard "no-hitter" talk and I thought, Great, just what this team needs--to get no-hit right outta the chute. But then I was shocked to hear it was our guy who did the no-hitting! (One year later, on our way down to the Sox-O's game in Baltimore, Chan and I listened to Derek Lowe's near no-no in the Friday night game before our Saturday game. Lowe would get that no-no a few weeks later, see above, but also, I'd later learn that my girlfriend, who I wouldn't meet until four years later, had been at the near Lowe-No in Baltimore, the game before Chan and I went.)

Other no-hitter memories:

Six different Astros vs. the Yanks at the Stadium, 6/11/03: Watched from my apartment in the greater Danbury, CT area. Okay, Danbury. It was so awesome to see the Yanks get no-hit--first time in my lifetime, and it hasn't happened since. I remember them being all pissy about it, like it somehow didn't count since Houston used so many pitchers.

Bud Smith, 9/3/01: I remember being psyched that a Smith threw one! The only one ever besides Frank Smith, who threw two no-hitters a hundred years ago.

Dwight Gooden, 5/14/96: Watched with my group of high school friends (three years after graduation, but everybody was home from college since it was May) at Jon Gust's house in the greater--in Ridgefield, CT. I couldn't believe at the time that Dwight Gooden was actually still effective for the Yanks, let alone throwing a freakin' no-hitter. And the announcers were not saying it was a no-hitter. This seemed weird to us--we knew all about the superstition, but we didn't realize that the announcers didn't say anything. After every inning, I'm going, Wait, am I missing something, does he have a no-hitter going? Is this an exhibition game? They just wouldn't let the audience know what was going on. I felt bad for the casual fan that day.... Of course, nnow it's commonplace for the announcers not to say anything, but this felt like the beginning of that trend.

Dave Righetti, 7/4/83: I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was 25 years ago. Red Sox-Yankees, in New York. I went to the game on July 1st with my dad, and two other T-ball teammates and their dads. It was a dong-fest. We were in the upper deck on the first base side, and I can still picture Jeff Newman hitting one out. He had been Gedman's new platoon-mate/backup that season. Rice, Evans, and Armas also went yard that day in a high-scoring affair, which the Yanks won, 12-8. I see now on retrosheet that we trailed 7-0, tied it at 7, then lost. But that was the Friday night game. I remember talking about how we were going, and then finding out that "Tommy Jones is going to the same series, only he's going to the July 4th game!" Well Tommy Jones saw quite a game that day, as Rags shut us down on a 100-degree-ish day. Even though we got all the Yanks games on channel 11, for some reason, I had this one on the radio, and I still remember hearing that final strike three to Wade Boggs, who never struck out. Real crappy. Rags can bite me.

There are more I have memories of, but this post is getting too long. There are the unofficial, "shortened game" no-hitters, too, though. We laughed at the Yanks when Andy Hawkins didn't allow a hit for the Yanks in a 1990 game, but the Yanks lost! But two years later it came back to us, as Matt Young lost a no-no of his own. And of course, one of my favorite days at Fenway was Devern Hansack's five-inning no-hitter on the final day of the 2006 season. Photos from that crazy rainy night here. And then of course, you've got your near no-nos, too many to count. But Everett breaking up Mussina's was AWESOME.

Here's the full no-hitter list.