I went to Yahoo Sports about 30 minutes ago to check on the score of today's A's - Red Sox game and saw this line score.
1-0 in the bottom of the 9th. Still time to get another run and.. wait! Is that a 0 in the "hits" column for Oakland? And it's in the bottom of the 9th! At the bottom of the box score, I saw
BOSTON PITCHER CURT SCHILLING HAS A NO-HITTER
THROUGH EIGHT INNINGS.
Then after refreshing a few minutes later, it said
BOSTON PITCHER CURT SCHILLING HAS A NO-HITTER
THROUGH 8 1/3 INNINGS.
And about a minute after that..
BOSTON PITCHER CURT SCHILLING HAS A NO-HITTER
THROUGH 8 2/3 INNINGS.
Wow! He's on the verge. But then..
A SINGLE BY OAKLAND'S SHANNON STEWART
WITH TWO OUTS IN THE NINTH INNING
ENDED CURT SCHILLING'S NO-HITTER.
Oh well. This is Schilling's third career one hitter, but he still doesn't have a no-hitter. And for the A's, taking three games out of four from the best team in baseball isn't too bad. They're now 5-2 in the month of June, which puts them three games over the .500 mark they were tethered to during April and May. And if Mark Ellis (who hit for the cycle on Monday night) had followed Stewart's single with a home run, it would have been their sixth win in a row.
No comments:
Post a Comment