On May 23, Borden pitched a two-hit 8–0 shutout victory against the Cincinnati Reds. Various historians claim that this performance was, instead, the first no-hitter thrown in the NL, thus the first in major league history. According to Lee Allen, baseball historian and writer, the scorecard shows that Borden gave up two bases on balls, which were counted as hits in the final score. The official scorekeeper for the game was O. P. Caylor, a writer for "The Cincinnati Enquirer", who believed, unlike his contemporaries, that bases on balls should be scored as hits. Bases on balls were only officially counted as hits for the season. "The Boston Daily Globe" reported on the game the following day, and noted that Reds had had two clean one-base hits during the game. Furthermore, on June 6, the "New York Clipper" did not report an occurrence of a no-hitter in their summary of the game, though the box score did have differing stats in other categories than what the "Daily Globe" had reported. Consequently, the first official no-hitter in Major League history was pitched by George Bradley, of the St. Louis Brown Stockings on July 15, 1876.