Another no-no: Reds’ Miley delivers 4th no-hitter of season
It comes against Indians for 2nd time in a month
CLEVELAND — Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, who were no-hit for the second time in a month.
Miley (4-2) relied on breaking pitches and his experience of 11-plus major league seasons to baffle the Indians and throw Cincinnati’s first no-hitter since Homer Bailey in 2013.
The left-hander shook off an 83-minute rain delay to start the game and followed Baltimore’s John Means, who no-hit Seattle on Wednesday. Joe Musgrove threw San Diego’s first no-hitter on April 9. Five days later, Chicago White Sox left-hander Carlos Rodón blanked the Indians.
This is the earliest in a calendar year there have been four no-hitters since 1917.
Miley walked one and struck out eight on 114 pitches. Cincinnati pushed three runs across in the ninth.
Notes
BAD LUCK BUX: Byron Buxton’s breakout season has been put on pause — a disappointing turn for the Minnesota Twins’ oft-injured center fielder. Buxton was added to the 10-day injured list Friday with a strained right hip.
The 27-year-old is hitting .370 with nine homers and five stolen bases and led the majors with 2.4 wins above replacement (per FanGraphs) before Friday’s games — a hair ahead of Angels star Mike Trout.
PROTOCOL UPDATE: A fifth major league team has been able to relax coronavirus protocols after 85% of its players and other on-field personnel completed vaccination. MLB and the players association made the announcement Friday without identifying any teams and said seven additional teams had reached the 85% level of having received final doses and would be able to relax protocols within two weeks once they are fully vaccinated.
MANAGE THIS: Former Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine is taking a swing at politics, announcing Friday that he’s running for mayor of his Connecticut hometown. Valentine, 70, currently serves as the athletic director at Sacred Heart University. He posted a video on social media and said he’ll run as an independent candidate in Stamford.
Friday’s games
CARDINALS 5, ROCKIES 0: In St. Louis, Jack Flaherty (6-0) hit his first career home run in his 117th at-bat and became the major leagues’ first six-game winner, allowing three hits in seven innings.
Nolan Arenado went 2-for-4 in his first game against the Rockies since Colorado traded the five-time All-Star to St. Louis on Feb. 1. Arenado doubled against Austin Gomber (2-4), one of the players he was traded for.
ANGELS 9, DODGERS 2: In Anaheim, California, David Fletcher drove in three runs on three hits, Shohei Ohtani had two RBI doubles and the Los Angeles Angels snapped their five-game losing streak with a victory over the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers.
Justin Upton and Taylor Ward homered in the Angels’ four-run second inning, and Mike Trout had a late RBI triple as the Halos opened the Freeway Series with only their fifth win in 16 games.
Mookie Betts homered in the ninth for the Dodgers, who have lost four straight.
NATIONALS 11, YANKEES 4: In New York, Washington burst ahead in a six-run eighth inning that included three errors and Josh Harrison’s three-run homer, and the Nationals stopped a three-game skid.
PHILLIES 12, BRAVES 2: In Atlanta, Odúbel Herrera hit a three-run homer in Philadelphia’s six-run first inning and the Phillies set season highs for runs and hits (16) as they won their fifth straight.
Attendance was 38,952 as the Braves allowed 100% capacity for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic.
MARLINS 6, BREWERS 1: In Miami, Isan Díaz hit his first career grand slam, a thirdinning drive off Patrick Weigel.
CUBS 3, PIRATES 2: In Chicago, Zach Davies (2-2) allowed five hits in seven scoreless innings, and Rex Brothers retired Bryan Reynolds on a bases-loaded flyout for his first save since Sept. 29, 2013.
ASTROS 10, BLUE JAYS 4: In Houston, Yuli Gurriel homered and tied a career high with four hits while driving in four runs.
WHITE SOX 3, ROYALS 0: In Kansas City, Missouri, Carlos Rodón (5-0) struck out eight and allowed five hits in six innings.
MARINERS 5, RANGERS 4: In Arlington, Texas, Mitch Haniger had a tiebreaking RBI single off Josh Sborz (3-2) in the seventh as Seattle bounced back from being no-hit in its previous game.
METS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4: In New York, Francisco Lindor hit a tying, two-run homer in the seventh inning after an apparently heated exchange with teammate Jeff McNeil in the dugout tunnel, and the Mets rallied to beat Arizona.
The blast came a half-inning after shortstop Lindor and second baseman McNeil combined to misplay a popup. After the top of the seventh, Mets players rushed into the tunnel adjacent to their dugout to address some sort of commotion.
Lindor acknowledged after the game that he and McNeil were having a disagreement — he claimed the pair saw a rat in the tunnel, and he was objecting to McNeil’s suggestion that it was a raccoon.
TWINS 7, TIGERS 3: In Detroit, Matt Shoemaker pitched five scoreless innings and Kyle Garlick, Jorge Polanco and Max Kepler homered to lift Minnesota to a win.
The game was delayed by rain for 35 minutes in the middle of the fourth and for 69 at the start of the seventh. The second delay came shortly after Willi Castro hit a threerun homer in the sixth.
RED SOX 6, ORIOLES 2: In Baltimore, Bobby Dalbec snapped an 0-for-27 skid with a single and a three-run homer, powering Boston.
ATHLETICS 2, RAYS 1: In Oakland, California, lefty Sean Manaea’s bid to pitch baseball’s second no-hitter of the night ended on a leadoff double in the eighth inning by high school teammate Mike Brosseau, then Seth Brown hit a game-ending homer as the Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays.