Rays right-hander Alex Cobb lost his bid for a no-hitter against the Yankees on Thursday on a one-out double off the bat of Chris Young in the eighth inning.
Alex Cobb loses no-hitter in 8th inning
Cobb fell short in his bid for history on Thursday, but his overall dominance against the Yankees continued.
Cobb got Stephen Drew to pop out to begin the frame before Young lined a first-pitch offspeed offering into the right-center field gap. Rays manager Joe Maddon opted to go to his bullpen at that point, with Cobb having thrown 101 pitches.
Young scored on a home run by Martin Prado to cut the Rays’ lead to 4-2, then hit a walk-off three-run home run in the ninth to give New York a 5-4 win.
The hit by Young kept the Yankees' long streak of avoiding being no-hit by a single pitcher at home alive. The Astros used six pitchers to accomplish the feat in 2003, but the last time one pitcher no-hit the Yanks in The Bronx was on Aug. 25, 1952, when Virgil Trucks of the Tigers held Mickey Mantle and company hitless in a 1-0 win.
Still, Cobb finished with yet another solid outing against the Yankees. The 26-year-old native of Boston was charged with one run after Brad Boxberger surrendered a home run to Martin Prado, but Cobb gave up just the one hit on two walks and struck out four. His success when facing New York is nothing new; Cobb now has a 1.67 ERA with 48 strikeouts and 15 walks in 64 frames in his career against the Yankees.
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