Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), April 28th, 1996
Byline: Tony Jackson Special to the Rocky Mountain News
COLORADO SPRINGS -- In the land that pitching forgot, Mike Farmer turned in a performance to remember Saturday.
Flirting simultaneously with a no-hitter and disaster, the lanky left-hander remained as cool as the windy, 58-degree afternoon at Sky Sox Stadium on his way to a tension-filled, 1-0 victory over the Vancouver Canadians before 3,364.
Pitching for a Colorado Springs team whose collective earned-run average coming in was a hefty 4.68 and in a ballpark where slugfests are a way of life, Farmer never ran into serious trouble, d...
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