Sports | April 22, 2018 12:52 pm

Oakland’s Sean Manaea Pitches No-Hitter Against Boston

Athletics ace cools red-hot Red Sox to pick up first no-hitter of 2018.

Sean Manaea #55 and Jonathan Lucroy #21 of the Oakland Athletics celebrates after Manaea pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum on April 21, 2018 in Oakland, California. The Athletics won the game 3-0. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

By Ethan Sacks

Oakland A’s ace Sean Manaea should get an extra asterisk in the records books next to his 3-0 win — the first no-hitter of the 2018 Major League Baseball season. Because the dominant 108-pitch effort, which included 10 strikeouts and just two walks, came at the expense of a Red Sox team dominating the majors in hitting.

Boston entered the game with a 17-2 record, while Oakland was 9-11. But for one day at least, the underdog had their day.

“I didn’t even think about it until I looked up in the seventh or eighth,” Manaea told reporters after the game, “and I was like, ‘Oh my God, why is there still a zero on there?’”

After closing out his masterful performance, Manaea became the first A’s pitcher to throw a no-hitter since Dallas Braden’s perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays in 2010.