A's pitcher JT Ginn loses no-hitter in 9th, Angels hit walk-off home run

Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn was connected the brink of making past connected Monday night, but the infinitesimal fell retired of his grasp successful the last inning of the crippled against the Los Angeles Angels.

Ginn took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, hoping to go the archetypal pitcher to propulsion 1 by himself since Blake Snell did it for the San Francisco Giants connected Aug. 2, 2024, and the archetypal to implicit 1 since 3 Chicago Cubs pitchers combined for 1 connected Sept. 4, 2024.

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Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn delivers a transportation during the archetypal inning against the Los Angeles Angels successful Anaheim, Calif., connected May 18, 2026. (William Liang/AP)

The Angels were capable to interruption up the no-no successful the bottommost of the ninth erstwhile Adam Frazier singled. Then, Zach Neto came to the sheet and deed a walk-off location run, giving the Angels a 2-1 pb successful melodramatic fashion.

In astir an instant, Ginn’s changeable was ruined.

"Obviously a pugnacious game," Ginn said aft the game. "Just support your caput up and support moving forward. It’s conscionable the quality of the crippled that we play. I onslaught the portion and I unrecorded with that."

Frazier lined a transportation implicit the shortstop facing an 0-2 count. Neto was up 2-0 successful the number erstwhile helium deed the game-winning location run.

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Los Angeles Angels' Zach Neto is doused with liquid aft hitting a walkoff location tally during the ninth inning against the Athletics successful Anaheim, Calif., connected May 18, 2026. (William Liang/AP)

"Just a brainsick crippled to play," Ginn said. "I fell down 2-0, threw a bully sinker, and helium was waiting connected it and enactment a bully plaything connected it. So, extremity your headdress to him."

Ginn threw a career-high 105 pitches and struck retired 10 batters. He became the sixth large leaguer since 1974 to let nary hits oregon runs successful the archetypal 8 innings of the crippled and instrumentality the loss. Rich Hill past made the people for the Los Angeles Dodgers successful August 2017.

"J.T. dominated each night. For him to locomotion disconnected the mound with a nonaccomplishment there, it hurts, obviously," Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said. "He pitched astir apt the champion crippled he’s pitched successful his large league career, and to person an accidental to get a no-hitter, and 2 hits aboriginal you locomotion disconnected with a loss, it’s tough. I had afloat assurance successful him going retired determination successful that inning astatine 100 pitches and trying to get it done. It conscionable didn’t enactment out."

The A’s scored their lone tally successful the apical of the ninth erstwhile Lawrence Butler drove successful Zack Gelof. The A’s were capable to grounds 7 hits disconnected the Angels.

Athletics' Tyler Soderstrom reacts during the sixth inning of a shot crippled against the Los Angeles Angels successful Anaheim, Calif., connected May 18, 2026. (William Liang/AP)

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Los Angeles hasn’t been no-hit since Sept. 11, 1999.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.