It wasn’t as brutal as the other night, but the Los Angeles Dodgers had another no-hitter broken up in the ninth inning.
The Dodgers came very close to throwing a combined no-hitter on Monday night in their 3-1 win over the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Tyler Glasnow got the start and lasted seven innings before he was finally pulled. But Rockies second baseman Ryan Ritter hit a double to start the ninth inning off of closer Tyler Scott to 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, however, 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 he was eventually pulled. He had 11 strikeouts and 105 pitches before Blake Treinen came in to replace him in the eighth. Treinen quickly got his three outs, too, and left the remaining three for Scott. But after Ritter’s hit, the Dodgers quickly closed out the inning to secure their two-run win.
The Dodgers came so close to throwing a no-hitter on Saturday night, too. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was perfect through 8 ⅔ innings against the Baltimore Orioles, but the team eventually blew a three-run lead and lost to the Orioles in brutal fashion. That would’ve been Yamamoto’s first MLB no-hitter, though he had previously thrown 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 one against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The last solo no-hitter came from Blake Snell in August 2024. The last full MLB season without a complete no-hitter was back in 2005.
Glasnow, 37, entered the night with a 4.26 ERA and 30 strikeouts this season in just 23 games. He missed a big chunk of the season with right shoulder inflammation, but actually returned to the team’s rotation on Monday night after dealing with a minor back injury in recent weeks. He was a late scratch from a start against the Baltimore Orioles because of it, too.
The Dodgers now hold an 80-64 record this season with the win, which marked their second straight after a rough five-game losing skid. They hold the lead in the NL West, too. The Rockies, on the other hand, sit at just 40-104 on the season and hold the worst record throughout the league.
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