Blake Snell, CY Young contender, toyed with a no-hitter, before giving up a home run to lead off the seventh inning. He finished out the seventh before exiting the game.
Marc Topkin wrote about Snell, with a pretty fantastic quote from manager Kevin Cash:
“Yeah, I can’t lie, I was okay with the hit coming because I don’t know, he wasn’t going to get to that 140 pitches as bad as everybody else would have wanted him to,’’ Cash said. “It just wasn’t going to happen. (Pitching coach) Kyle (Snyder) would have beat me down and made me go out there (and take him out).