Jonathan India spoiled the Blue Wahoos' combined no-hitter with his base hit in the ninth inning.
photo by Tim Evearitt
Pensacola, FL - The Pensacola Blue Wahoos took a perfect game with two outs in the seventh inning. A no-hitter was still intact until a lead-off single in the ninth spoiled that in the 5-1 win over the Chattanooga Lookouts before an overflow, sell out crowd (5,038) Saturday at Blue Wahoos Stadium.
For the first six and two thirds innings in Pensacola Saturday night, the Lookouts could not sniff a base hit. Twenty up and twenty down.
The oddity of this performance is that the near perfect game and no-hitter was being accomplished by three members of the Wahoos bullpen and the one-hitter by a fourth and then fifth reliever.
The perfect game effort would be lost for the Wahoos when the fourth reliever hit Jonathan India in the seventh. The shutout would disappear when Brantley Bell was hit with the bases loaded in the same inning.
The no hitter went out the window in the ninth as India scorched a line drive off the pitchers glove. With the shift on, the second baseman was too late to retrieve the ball and get the out. Infield hit and the perfect game-no hitter-shutout became history.
Lookouts game "highlights" (from redsminorleagues.com)
Jonathan India went 1-3 and was hit by a pitch.
Ryan Hendrix threw 2.0 shutout innings with 3 strikeouts.
Cory Thompson threw a perfect inning with a strikeout.
On Sunday the Lookouts continue their ten-day road trip in Mobile facing the BayBears.
Chattanooga's RHP Brad Markey (1-1,2.77) takes the hill while the BayBears have yet to announce their starter. The game will be broadcast on 98.1 FM "The Lake" at 6:50 EDT and at Milb.com.