Cardinals RHP Dustin May loses no-hitter in the 8th, then loses to the Brewers

MILWAUKEE (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Dustin May lost his no-hitter against the Brewers on Wednesday when Garrett Mitchell led off the eighth inning with a double. May was removed from the game when the next hitter, Luis Rengifo, singled.

“It’s a game of 27 outs, so it really only takes one opportunity,” Mitchell said. “Obviously, (May) was absolutely shoving. We just needed a little crack. Something to get rolling.”

May (3-6), who entered the game with a 5.00 ERA, had nine strikeouts and didn’t walk a batter. He threw 87 pitches, 62 for strikes, in a game he wound up losing 2-1.

Until the eighth, the Brewers had no answer for May, who made it easy on the fielders behind him. One exception came when shortstop Masyn Winn made a spectacular diving stop of Sal Frelick’s grounder up the middle with two outs in the fifth. Wynn got to his feet and fired a throw to first base that Alec Burleson scooped to nip the speedy Frelick.

Only two Brewers players reached base before the eighth. Jake Bauers was hit by a pitch in the second and Frelick reached on catcher’s interference in the third.

“You feel like you stole one,” said Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich, whose two-out single drove in Mitchell with the tying run. “It was a credit to our pitchers for keeping us in the game. We were only chasing one run. Even though things weren’t really going good for us on offense, when you’re only down one, anything can happen and it can change quick. We were fortunate to get some traffic in the eighth and do just enough.”

The Cardinals tallied their only run in the fourth when Jordan Walker singled leading off and later scored on a triple by Bryan Torres.

There have been two no-hitters in the history of American Family Field, which opened in 2001.

Cubs pitcher Alec Mills tossed a no-hitter in a 12-0 romp of the Brewers on Sept. 13, 2020, with no fans in attendance because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another Cubs hurler, Carlos Zambrano, threw the only other no-hitter at the ballpark, against the Houston Astros on Sept. 14, 2008. The Cubs played the Astros in Milwaukee because of damage in the Houston area from Hurricane Ike.

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