TAMPA — Earlier than Max Fried may really lose his no-hitter, it was misplaced for him in the midst of the eighth.
As Fried jogged out to the mound for the underside of the eighth engaged on a no-hit bid via seven innings, the official scorer introduced a controversial scoring change to present the Rays their first hit of the day.
Within the backside of the sixth, Chandler Simpson had hit a floor ball off of first base that Paul Goldschmidt couldn’t discipline cleanly.
The speedy Simpson busted it down the road and should have beat Fried there had Goldschmidt dealt with it, however the play was scored an error on Goldschmidt.
Upon additional evaluate, although, official scorer Invoice Matthews introduced that he was altering the scoring to a single for Simpson.
The choice in the end grew to become moot minutes later, when Jake Mangum led off the underside of the eighth with a line-drive single to heart discipline.
Fried’s day ended two batters later, tossing 7 ⅓ robust innings on two hits and two walks and leaving with a runner on first.
