Oakland right-hander Osvaldo Bido retired the first 14 San Francisco batters and carried a no-hit bid into the sixth inning, leading the Athletics to a 2-0 win on Saturday in the second-to-last game of the Bay Bridge Series.
Bido’s no-hit attempt ended when he allowed a one-out infield single to Grant McCray in the sixth inning. The ball traveled only about two feet at 67.3 mph off the bat. Despite the disappointment of allowing his first hit this way, Bido took it in stride.
“It’s part of the game,” he said with a smile. “You have to move forward and keep focused.”
Bido finished with just that one hit allowed over six innings, striking out six and walking two.
As the Bay Bridge rivalry wrapped up its final weekend before the A’s move, the game attracted a season-high crowd of 37,551 at the Coliseum.
Bido (4-3) did not allow a baserunner until Mike Yastrzemski walked with two outs in the fifth inning. Earlier, Bido retired Matt Chapman with a great play by third baseman Darell Hernáiz, who fielded a sharp grounder and threw out Chapman at first.
To end the inning, Bido got Patrick Bailey to fly out on the eighth pitch of their at-bat, with Lawrence Butler making the catch in right field.
The A’s took the lead with Butler’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth, and Seth Brown added an RBI single in the sixth.
Oakland’s second reliever, Grant Holman, made his major league debut in the seventh inning after being promoted earlier in the day. Holman’s debut was special, coming 11 years and a day after he pitched a no-hitter in the Little League World Series.
Holman retired two batters, including a strikeout of Tyler Fitzgerald, and allowed one hit.
“Pretty impressive for the young man,” said manager Mark Kotsay. “We talked pregame about trying to land him in a soft spot, and that really wasn’t a soft spot. He came in very calm and under control.”
Michel Otañez closed the game and earned his first career save. The A’s are now 7-1-1 in their last nine series and 16-9 since the All-Star break.
