Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma tossed a no-no on August 12. This was something else, though. It was Fiers’ first career complete game and the fifth no-hitter in Major League Baseball this season.
It was hard to notice during the game, but a swell of controversy has made it almost impossible for baseball fans to ignore the video still of Astros’ right-handed pitcher Mike Fiers showing a shiny substance on his glove during what would be his first career no-hitter.
The Astros only had two hits in the first five innings, sending back meek groundball after meek groundball off Kershaw.
Jose Altuve continued to crush the Dodgers’ Cy Young candidates.
Namely, three wild pitches directly led to Los Angeles’ only two runs. 500 at 60-61.
Kyle Lohse picked up his first save. Ellis double, passed ball and wild pitch. The Houston Astros have won seven of their last 10 home games. Correa followed that with a walk-off hit in the 13th on Wednesday.
Rollins doubled and scored on Turner’s single in the sixth.
Anthony Rizzo added an RBI single in the seventh for Chicago.
Correa flubbed it. It was initially ruled an error, but after Dodgers public relations manager Jon Chapper requested it be reviewed, it was changed to a hit, and the Dodgers had two. Mat Latos allowed 10 earned runs over his most recent two starts, and Los Angeles skipped him this past week.
It was not the first time Gomez came close to scoring the tying run. “I couldn’t even touch the ball the first three at-bats”. He struck out five and walked none.
NEW YORK (AP) – Carlos Carrasco struck out 11, Carlos Santana homered and the Cleveland Indians stopped the New York Yankees once again.
Carrasco (12-9) outpitched Masahiro Tanaka (9-6), giving up one run and five hits in 6 2-3 innings. He improved to 4-0 in his last six starts. Soon after he left, the Yankees got close. George Springer (.264, 43 Rs, 13 HRs, 29 RBIs, 14 SBs) went 1 for 2 yesterday with one run and one stolen base.
Jake Marisnick gave the Astros a 2-0 lead in the second with a two-run homer off the left center fagade. The ninth inning was the beginning of the end for the Dodgers.
During the Biggio ceremony, a security guard collapsed along the right field line. Mark Melancon (3-1) needed six pitches to get through the top of the ninth.
Kershaw is 5-0 in his last nine starts, but easily could be 7-0 with a little help from the backend of the pen. Altuve scored on the play, reducing the Astros’ deficit to 2-1. “I’m guessing they lead the league in strikeouts (in addition to home runs) and I couldn’t strike many of them out”. Major league catchers entering Sunday were hitting.240/.303/.380 collectively.
DETROIT (AP) – Colby Lewis pitched seven strong innings to help the Texas Rangers beat the Detroit Tigers.
Kershaw shoved through eight innings, striking out 10 Astros without allowing a walk.
BOSTON (AP) – Johnny Cueto had his worst start since coming to Kansas City just before the trading deadline, and the Boston Red Sox beat the AL Central-leading Royals on Friday night to send them to their second straight loss. He would be responsible for all three runs on seven hits that were scattered across six innings of work.
Henry Owens pitched eight innings of four-hit ball.