It wasn’t as brutal as the other night, but the Los Angeles Dodgers had another no-hitter broken up in the ninth inning Monday.
The Dodgers came very close to throwing a combined no-hitter in their 3-1 win over the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Tyler Glasnow got the start and threw seven no-hit innings before he was pulled.
Rockies second baseman Ryan Ritter hit a double off closer Tyler Scott to start the ninth inning and end the Dodgers’ combined bid.
Glasnow was just about perfect for the Dodgers in his seven innings on the mound. He allowed a walk in the second inning, and then Kyle Farmer hit Jordan Beck in on a sacrifice fly to get Colorado on the board.
But the no-hitter was safe, and Glasnow made it through seven innings before being taken out. He had 11 strikeouts and 105 pitches when Blake Treinen came in to replace him in the eighth. Treinen quickly got his three outs and left the remaining three for Scott. After Ritter’s hit, the Dodgers quickly closed out the inning to secure their two-run win.
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The Dodgers came so close to throwing a no-hitter on Saturday, too. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was perfect through 8 ⅔ innings against the Baltimore Orioles, but L.A. then blew a three-run lead and lost to the Orioles in brutal fashion. That would’ve been Yamamoto’s first MLB no-hitter, after he threw a pair in the Nippon Professional Baseball league.
Major League Baseball still has not seen a no-hitter this season, though there have been several close calls. The last no-hitter was thrown on Sept. 4, 2024, when the Chicago Cubs threw a combined no-no against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The most recent solo no-hitter came from Blake Snell in August 2024.
The last full MLB season without a complete no-hitter was 2005.
Glasnow, 32, entered the night with a 3.41 ERA and 81 strikeouts in 14 games this season. He missed a big chunk of the season due to right shoulder inflammation but returned to the team’s rotation Monday after dealing with a minor back injury in recent weeks. He was a late scratch from a weekend start against the Baltimore Orioles because of that ailment.
The Dodgers hold an 80-64 record with the win, their second straight after a rough five-game losing skid. They hold a one-game lead over the Padres in the NL West. The Rockies, on the other hand, sit at 40-104 on the season and hold the worst record in MLB.
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