The Mariners didn’t make history.
The Padres didn’t either.
At 8:58 p.m. Tuesday, on Dinelson Lamet’s 93rd pitch of the evening, with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, Mariners’ catcher Omar Narvaez hit a line-drive single to right field.
That single hit in a game between two last-place teams on a Tuesday night in August became newsworthy because it was the Mariners’ first hit of the game against Lamet, San Diego’s 27-year-old right-hander making his sixth start since returning from Tommy John surgery in April 2018.
That hit became newsworthy also because it prevented the Mariners from getting no-hit for the third time in one season, something that’s never happened to one team in major-league history … and also also because it kept the Padres
And that hit was newsworthy also-also because it prevented the Padres from securing their first no-hitter in 51 years as a major-league club.