Bryce Miller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning Thursday night before Nolan Schanuel ended it with a leadoff single for the Angels. The Seattle Mariners right-hander still left with six scoreless frames, seven strikeouts and no walks, a start that kept Seattle within reach of a rare no-hit bid deep into the game.
He threw 50 of 69 pitches for strikes through six innings. That kind of strike-throwing left the Angels with very little margin, and it kept the game on a thin line until the seventh inning broke the spell.
Seattle no-hit watch
The bid mattered because Miller entered with a 3-2 record and a 1.97 ERA, then delivered the sort of start that can change the tone of a series in one stretch. His season debut had been delayed by a strained left oblique muscle in spring training, and he did not join the Mariners rotation until mid-May.
Seattle had not seen a no-hitter since James Paxton did it in Toronto on May 8, 2018. That gap framed Miller’s outing without needing any embellishment: six innings with no hits allowed against a lineup that had to keep shrinking its options every time he filled the zone.
Angels finally break through
Denzer Guzmán reached second on a throwing error by J.P. Crawford with two outs in the fourth inning, but that did not count as a hit and it did not stop Miller from pushing on. The real break came in the seventh, when Guzmán and Schanuel each singled and the no-hitter disappeared on Schanuel’s bloop to right field leading off the inning.
For the Angels, the hit ended their run as the majors’ longest active team without being no-hit. They had not been no-hit since Sept. 11, 1999, when they lost 7-0 at Minnesota, and Miller’s six-inning hold kept that drought in the picture until the first pitch of the seventh changed it.
Seven innings, one swing
The only unanswered piece is the finish. Miller’s no-hit bid was gone after Schanuel’s single, and the game moved on from there with the score and the rest of the inning not included in the available facts.
What stands out is the shape of the outing before the hit: six innings, seven strikeouts, no walks, and a Mariners starter who spent most of the night one clean inning away from something Seattle has not had since Paxton’s start in Toronto.
