Padres hold on for 2-1 victory after King takes no-hitter into seventh inning for second time this season
Padres pitcher Michael King is greeted in the dugout after the seventh inning of Sunday’s game, in which he allowed the Guardians one run on two hits. Maybe one day. He keeps knocking on history’s door.
The 29-year-old right-hander had taken a no-hitter two outs into the seventh inning on April 17 in Milwaukee before surrendering a single. He then was charged with the game’s only run when the runner he left on second base with two outs in the eighth scored against Wandy Peralta.Closer Robert Suarez got the final out of the eighth and retired the top three batters in the Guardians’ order to end the game.
That might have changed this season had they not traded him to the Padres as part of the package to get Juan Soto. King had thrown just 70 pitches to that point, and the Padres had made four plays along the way that would have been remembered as having preserved the no-hitter — shortstop Ha-Seong Kim’s running grab of a grounder up the middle and 360-degree spin and throw to end the second inning, first baseman Luis Arraez getting in the way of a line drive to catch the final out of the fourth inning and ranging into the hole to grab a grounder and throwing to King for second out in the fifth, and King’s...
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