OAKLAND, Calif. — Blaine Hardy knew what was going on.
When he took the mound for the bottom of the seventh inning on Friday night with the Oakland Coliseum scoreboard showing a lot of zeroes, one jumped out at Hardy.
“Oh, I knew,” he said. “I got to a point where, when I went back out for the seventh, I kind of glanced down to see if we had anybody warming up and nobody was warming up, so I was like, 'Alright, this game’s mine, let’s see how far I could go.'”
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Hardy, the Detroit Tigers’ versatile left-hander, couldn’t keep his no-hit bid going any longer.