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No-hitter hating manager Preston Gomez has died at the age of 86, several months after getting hit by a car at a gas station. The second Latin American manager in the major leagues when he took the reins of the expansion San Diego Padres in 1969, he also managed the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros and achieved the level of success generally ascribed to the Padres, Cubs and Astros of the 1970s, amassing a record of 346-529 and 4 last-place finishes. With Clay Kirby throwing a no-hitter in the 8th inning in 1970, but the Padres trailing 1-0, Gomez lifted him for a pinch-hitter, drawing boos from the crowd, with one fan jumping into the dugout to confront him. The Padres lost the no-hitter and the game. With the Astros in 1974 and Don Wilson throwing a no-hitter into the 8th, but trailing 2-1, Gomez did it again, and history repeated itself.