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Garza, Tampa Bay No-Hit Tigers

07/27/2010

Matt Garza threw the first no-hitter in the 13-year history of the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday, picking up his 11th victory of the season in the process, and leading the Rays to a 5-0 win over the Detroit Tigers.

It was the fifth no-hitter in the major leagues this year, the most in one season since 1991 when seven were thrown.  Tampa Bay had been no-hit four times in franchise history, including two perfect games.

Garza (11-5) allowed only one baserunner.  He walked the Tigers' Brennan Boesch in the second inning.

Oakland's Dallas Braden had thrown a perfect game against Tampa Bay on May 9th, and Arizona's Edwin Jackson tossed a no-hitter against his former team on June 26th.  So, it is the third time in major league history that one team has been involved in three no-hitters in the same season.  Previously, it happened twice in the same year -- 1917 -- when the St. Louis Browns and the Chicago White Sox were both involved in three, all against each other.

This year's other no-hitters included the perfect game from Philadelphia's Roy Halladay on May 29th, and a no-no pitched by Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez on April 17th.  In addition to those pitching gems, there was the perfect game denied of Detroit's Armando Galarraga because of a missed call at first base by umpire Jim Joyce.

The last no-hitter pitched against Detroit was thrown by Randy Johnson, then with Seattle, in 1990. Tigers' manager Jim Leyland was ejected from Monday night's game after arguing with second base umpire Marty Foster after a stolen base by the Rays' B.J. Upton.

  Tim Shaw