{"id":2643,"date":"2019-05-08T19:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T12:21:03","slug":"mike-fiers-pitches-the-seasons-first-no-hitter-as-athletics-beat-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/mike-fiers-pitches-the-seasons-first-no-hitter-as-athletics-beat-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Fiers Pitches The Seasons First No Hitter as Athletics Beat Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fiers had not been having a vintage season and wasn\u2019t even originally supposed to start in this one.\u00a0 However, despite a delayed start to the game, which must have been distracting, he somehow rediscovered his fastball and accuracy to pitch both Oakland&#8217;s and the MLB&#8217;s first no-hitter of the season in a 2-0 win over Cincinnati. This was the 300th no-hitter in major-league history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike Fiers tosses the first no-hitter of 2019 and now has TWO career no-no&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jAXrwA2Y50\">pic.twitter.com\/jAXrwA2Y50<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Starting 9 (@Starting9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starting9\/status\/1126094395168550914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFiers who has one previous no-hitter to his name entered the game with a far from impressive 6.81 ERA, but 131 pitches later the Oakland Coliseum was rocking and the Athletics dismal previous road trip was all but forgotten.\u00a0 Pitching-wise this was the most he has thrown in a game since his Astros days when he ironically threw 134 in his first no-hitter against the Dodgers on Aug. 21, 2015. and this outing was more efficient than spectacular with his fastball topping out at around 90mph. He only had 6 strikeouts but did save one for the last man Eugenio Suarez who swung out on a 75-mph curveball.<\/p>\n<p>So Mike Fiers has joined an elite group of 35 players who have had more than one no-hitter, and the As will hope that this is the start of a better run as that disastrous road game run has seen them drop to the foot of the AL West 5.5 games back on leaders Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit \u00a0Eric Broder Van Dyke\u00a0\/\u00a0Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Fiers had not been having a vintage season and wasn\u2019t even originally supposed to start in this one.\u00a0 However, despite a delayed start to the game, which must have been distracting, he somehow rediscovered his fastball and accuracy to pitch both Oakland&#8217;s and the MLB&#8217;s first no-hitter of the season in a 2-0 win&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[2713,2714,2542],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-league-west","category-oakland-athletics","tag-mike-fiers","tag-no-hitter","tag-oakland-athletics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}