He retired his first 13 batters before walking DJ Stewart on a full count in the fifth. Maikel Franco hit a two-run homer with one out in the eighth off Brandon Bielak, breaking up the no-hitter. Odorizzi and reliever Cristian Javier held the Orioles without a hit through seven. The start of the game was delayed by rain for an hour, and there was also a minute rain delay during the top of the eighth.
That came after the teams played for a while in a driving rain, with puddles forming in the infield. Bielak came on to pitch the bottom of the eighth for Houston. The Orioles have thrown 10 no-hitters in club history -- six since moving to Baltimore and four when they were previously known as the St.
Louis Browns. Their most recent no-hitter was thrown by John Means in The O's are still seeking their first perfect game. Means gave the Orioles their first no-hitter of the 21st century and first solo no-no in more than 50 years when he went into Seattle and carved up the Mariners. The left-hander faced the minimum, with the only batter reaching on a third-strike wild pitch before getting caught stealing. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it was the first non-perfect no-no in Major League history that didn't include a walk, a hit by pitch or an error.
This marked the first career complete game for Means, who tied a career high with 12 strikeouts. Read full article. More content below. Jake Odorizzi. In this article:. Live Today Tomorrow vs - -. A no-hitter would have been nice, but the Astros have plenty of other things to feel good about. Story continues. Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting.
Recommended Stories. Kansas City Star. Atlanta Black Star. Yahoo Sports. Women's Health. House Beautiful. Patriots Wire. Mercker later threw a complete-game no-hitter in This is the only combined no-no that went into extra innings. Cordova threw nine innings and Rincon the 10th as the game had gone into extras scoreless.
The Pirates won on a three-run walk-off homer by pinch-hitter Mark Smith in the bottom of the 10th inning. Oswalt started the game but left due to injury after only one inning. Because the Astros led throughout in an win, the official scorer had the discretion to name the winning pitcher, since Oswalt didn't go the requisite five innings.
He chose Lidge, who threw two perfect innings. This no-no ended a streak of nearly 45 years during which the Yankees were not no-hit, dating back to September 20, , when they were no-hit by Hoyt Wilhelm, then with Baltimore.
That streak, verified at 7, games , was broken by the Cubs May 6, The Cubs still hold that record, but their streak ended at 7, games when Cole Hamels no-hit them July 25, Millwood had to leave the game after six innings with a groin injury and the other five finished up, only the second combined no-no with that many pitchers.
Millwood became just the fourth pitcher in major-league history to throw a no-hitter by himself and also be part of a combined one Vida Blue, Mike Witt and Kent Mercker are the others.
Hamels had run up a large pitch count of in six innings due to five walks, so the Phillies called on three other pitchers to finish off the win. It was one of only two no-hitters in MLB history where a player on the team being no-hit had a player steal three bases Jason Heyward ; the other such game was in The Phillies also became the fourth team since to throw a no-hitter and be no-hit in the same season, as the Dodgers' Josh Beckett had no-hit them earlier in
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