A's Pitcher Throws No-Hitter Tuesday Night

OAKLAND, CA — Those who stayed for the late start between the Oakland Athletics and Cincinnati Reds due to a lighting outage at the Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday night witnessed no-hit baseball history, per team officials.A's starting pitcher Mike Fiers tossed his second-career no-hitter, the 300th in MLB history, following a near-two-hour delay in a 2-0 victory.

The game was delayed from its 7:07 p.m. scheduled start to 8:45 p.m. as field crews worked to resolve a lighting outage in the left field lights.

For Fiers, his previous no-hitter - which was also his only other complete game - came in 2015 when he was with the Houston Astros against Los Angeles Dodgers. He's the eighth pitcher in MLB history to throw a no-hitter for multiple teams and the 34th with multiple no-hitters.

The Tuesday performance continued a 14.2-inning scoreless streak for Feirs against the Reds that has come across three previous starts in his career. He threw 131 pitches Tuesday, 83 for strikes.

Three Reds players got on base: Jesse Winkler reached due to a Matt Chapman error in the fourth inning, and both Yasiel Puig and Eugenio Perez walked in the seventh.

Jurickson Profar drove in both A's runs, with a double down the left field line to score Stephen Piscotty in the second inning and a solo home run in the sixth.

Fiers' current teammate, fellow starting pitcher Brett Anderson, was present at Fiers other no-hitter in 2015. Anderson, who was with the Dodgers at the time, tweeted later Tuesday night that being at Fiers second no-hitter was "exponentially cooler than the first."

The announced attendance from team officials for Tuesday's game was 11,794 and the game finished in two hours, 25 minutes.

— Bay City News

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