Wow! What a game you saw last night if you had Tampa Bay Rays tickets, when Jeremy Hellickson threw a no hitter for the WIN_TEAM!! Congratulations to Hellickson as well as the Rays for an incredible accomplishment. You never know what you will see at a baseball game and if you were at Comerica Park yesterday you’ll have a story to tell for the rest of your life! It was a great baseball game that fans with Rays tickets will remember for quite some time.
Rays pitcher Jeremy Hellickson (1.29 ERA) got the win, while Max Scherzer (4.03 ERA) took the loss for the Tigers. Jeremy Hellickson went 7 solid innings for the Rays, allowed 3 hits, no home runs and no earned runs with no walks and 7 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Rays was Joaquin Benoit (1.30), and Mike Ekstrom (7.36). The Tigers’s starter Max Scherzer went 7 innings, allowed 4 hits, no home runs and one earned run with 4 walks and 2 strikeouts. Phil Coke (2.68), Robbie Weinhardt (6.89), and Enrique Gonzalez (4.18) also pitched for the Tigers. With the win, Hellickson’s record goes to 2-0, while Scherzer drops to 7-9.
In addition to the 8 runs, the Rays put up 9 hits and committed no errors. Jason Bartlett led the Rays in hitting with 3 hits, followed by Evan Longoria’s 2 hits. Jason Bartlett had a tough day at the plate, leaving 4 runners on base. The Tigers didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Tigers got no runs, 4 hits and 2 errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Andy Fletcher, Mike Everitt, Adrian Johnson and Tim McClelland. There were 26,114 Tigers ticket holders in attendance at Comerica Park.