TORONTO — Sixteen strikeouts in seven innings pitched or nine innings pitched with no hits?
How about both?
Following his most impressive outing of his career where he struck out 16 Oakland A’s batter in just seven innings pitched, James Paxton did something even better. The kid raised in Ladner, British Columbia tossed his first career no-hitter in his home country of Canada on Tuesday night.
The score? A 5-0 win for the Mariners. But the real most important figure on that electric monstrosity of a scoreboard high above center field at the Rogers Centre was the 0 in the hit column.