The game everyone’s talking about from last night is the near-no-hitter—so called because only eight innings were completed—by the Angels, who lost the game to the Dodgers—which is why the no-hitter was only eight innings: the winning Dodgers didn’t need to take their bottom-of-the-ninth at-bats. Got that?
Jered Weaver
29 June 2008
did not throw a no-hitter, as MLB defines that a no-no as consisting of at least nine innings, but Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo held the Dodgers to just three walks and a hit batsman. However, the Angels were done in by poor fielding, committing two errors in the fifth inning that led to the game’s only run, which was unearned. Matt Kemp hit a dribbler up the first-base line that spun out of Weaver’s glove for an error, and Kemp stole second and advanced to third when the throw from catcher Jeff Mathis sailed into center field. Blake DeWitt then brought Kemp home with a sacrifice fly to right field. It was ultimately a tough night for Weaver, who was tagged for the loss and was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning despite having a no-hitter going.
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