D-Backs to celebrate Bumgarner’s ‘no-hitter’

The Arizona Diamondbacks are doubling down on their stance that Madison Bumgarner threw a no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves Sunday where it counts — with the team’s ticket prices.

The team announced that tickets for Friday and Saturday’s games against the Colorado Rockies will cost $14.

The deal is to commemorate Bumgarner not allowing a hit in seven innings in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday and to also commemorate Zac Gallen allowing just one hit in seven innings the first game of that doubleheader.

The team continues to push Major League Baseball to count Bumgarner’s no-hitter as a no-hitter.

According to MLB and the Elias Sports Bureau, a no-hitter thrown in a seven-inning game does not count as such in the record books based on a 1991 rule.

“It’s a no-hitter to me and it will be forever,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo after the game.

Added catcher Carson Kelly: “It’s still a no-hitter. We came in knowing it was a seven-inning game. That’s what we were told, and we gave up no hits in seven innings. That’s how I’m going to look at it.”

As part of Friday and Saturday’s games, fans can take photos with the jerseys worn by Bumgarner and Gallen in the games on Sunday.

The team is promoting having fans share them on social media with signs that say “#MakeItCount.”

To receive the $14 ticket offer, fans can use the promo code FOURTEEN when buying tickets at dbacks.com.

The team announced that the first 5,000 fans in attendance at each of the weekend games will receive the Graffiti Art Cap, courtesy of Pepsi.

Gallen and Bumgarner combined for the fewest amount of hits in a doubleheader in Major League history on Sunday, allowing just the one in 14 innings.

It was the first time in Diamondbacks history that the team had backto-back complete game shutouts.

MLB recognizes the stats from the game, but does not recognize Bumgarner’s feat as a no-hitter because it wasn’t over nine innings. It does recognize it as a complete game.

That isn’t stopping the Diamondbacks from recognizing the game as a no-hitter. The team announced it is sending the cap worn by Bumgarner in the game to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, “as is customary for all no-hitters.”

MLB did recognize Bumgarner as the National League’s Co-Player of the Week on Monday.

Bumgarner also disagrees with MLB’s assessment that his no-hitter wasn’t a no-hitter.

“I mean, I don’t know, I didn’t give up any hits today,” Bumgarner said after Sunday’s game. “I’m not in control of how many innings we’re playing.”

MLB started making doubleheaders seven innings a game last season.

Bumgarner was asked if he thought he would have been able to finish off the performance over nine innings.

“If it worked for seven,” he said, “it’s hard to imagine it not working for two more.”