Fomer Brewer Tosses No-Hitter

“Just the opportunity to play baseball another day”. It was the first time in his career he had pitched in the ninth inning of a start. The Astros defeated the Dodgers 3-0.

The Dodgers (67-53) had not been no-hit since June 8, 2012.

Fiers threw 134 pitches in leading the Astros to a 3-0 win over the Dodgers in Houston. His stuff on paper is, whatever.

“He was hitting that spot, mixing it up with his offspeed pitches, and we just couldn’t seem to lay off of it”, Carl Crawford said. “Give him credit. It’s his night”.

Zack Greinke allowed a home run to Luis Valbuena in the second inning, giving Houston a 2-0 lead, but then recovered to retire his next 11 batters faced. He struck out 10 and walked three, before retiring the final 21 batters of the game. Fiers struck out the side in the eighth inning and 10 in all.

Philadelphia broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning by scoring four runs on four hits off Kendry Flores (1-2), who was making his first career start.

Travis Jankowski had two hits, an RBI and scored a run in his big league debut as the Padres made it six wins from seven games. Since becoming a part of Houston’s roster, he has allowed seven earned runs in 26 innings. But before his anticipated senior season, driving during the night on his way back from Christmas break, Fiers fell asleep at the wheel, hit a guard rail on a Florida turnpike and flew through his car’s windshield. “I don’t know”. And it doesn’t happen all the time. “He’s a guy that’s tough. But other than that, I think you know you have to score”. I go and study them.

“After I got that last out everything kind of hit me”, he said.

“It’s not a goal, but it’s something that is pretty special because it’s the first time I have done it”, Altuve said. “If I’d given up 1, 2, 3 or 10 we were going to lose today”. Whether Houston uses the moment as motivation is up to them. “When people say they don’t have it, I just don’t understand”.

The last-place Indians are 4-1 against the Yankees this year. He allowed a walk in each of the first three innings, but he hasn’t allowed a runner past first.

Fiers produced the first no-hitter in the history of Minute Maid Park, which opened in 2000. Almost all of the announced crowd of 33,833 stood on its feet for the ninth inning.

Turner was the Dodgers’ last hope. Utley, incidentally, had a hit in each of his eight games since being activated from the disabled list coming into Friday night’s matchup against Fiers.

Why wouldn’t Mattingly get upset about something like this? “A loss is a loss, especially late in the season, trying to win a division”.

Bryce Harper hit his 31st home run and Michael Taylor also homered for the Nationals.

Minnesota won the first two games of the four-game series and evened its record at.

In the clubhouse and in the coach’s room, this group has been here before.

“Everything was working tonight”, former Milwaukee Brewers player Fiers told @astros after the game. At that point, everyone in the ballpark could feel it. Five hits? Nine hits? You just move forward.”.