WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn lost his bid for a no-hitter Saturday night against the Washington Nationals when Keibert Ruiz lined a clean single to center field with one out in the seventh inning.
After the base hit, Ginn was immediately removed from the game by manager Mark Kotsay and received a standing ovation. The right-hander exited with the A's leading 8-0 as they tried to snap a 10-game losing streak.
Ginn struck
out seven and walked three. He threw 82 pitches, 50 for strikes.
Before the seventh, Washington’s only baseruners came on a pair of two-out walks in the second and a two-out walk in the fifth. The Nationals piled up a season-high 21 hits Friday night in a 23-4 blowout against the A's.
The closest the Nationals had come to a hit was in the fifth when Dylan Crews appeared to beat out an infield single to third baseman Joshua Kuroda-Grauer. After Crews was initially ruled safe, the A’s challenged and the call was overturned following a replay review for the final out of the inning.
Kuroda-Grauer also made a diving catch in the outfield on CJ Abrams' popup in the fourth.
Ginn, who had a 3.67 ERA going into the game, has never thrown a complete game during his three-year major league career.
Mike Fiers pitched the most recent no-hitter for the A’s against the Cincinnati Reds in 2019 when the team still played in Oakland.
Four Houston Astros pitchers combined to no-hit the Texas Rangers on May 25, the only no-hitter in the majors this season.
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