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2010 Brendon Morrow CG 1 Hit 17K's Season Ticket 8/10/10 Rays @ Blue Jays READ! GREAT SHAPE SEE SCAN Incredible Read StoryBrandon Morrow wasn't about to hang his head after coming inches away from a no-hitter. The Blue Jays pitcher still tossed his first shutout -- first complete game, in fact -- and struck out a career-high 17 batters."Those things combined were more than enough to overcome the feeling of the missed no-hitter," said Morrow, who allowed only Evan Longoria's single with two outs in the ninth inning of a 1-0 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday. "That would have been a great feat, but I'll start at a complete-game, one-hit shutout with 17 strikeouts."Longoria said that Morrow deserved the no-hitter, with the way he was mixing a devastating breaking pitch and a mid-90s fastball to plow through the Rays' batting order."He was putting guys away better than anybody I've ever seen," Longoria said.The three-game sweep was crippling for the Rays, who have lost a season-high five straight after briefly moving ahead of the New York Yankees in the AL East earlier in the week.The crowd of 22,313 gave Morrow a standing ovation as he took the mound in the ninth.Jason Bartlett flied out to center, Ben Zobrist walked on four pitches and Carl Crawford popped out to bring up Longoria, who took a shaky swing at a 1-1 pitch and hit a grounder the other way. Second baseman Aaron Hill scooted to his left and made a dive as the ball took its third hop, and it fell out of his glove and trickled away as he hit the ground."He threw a four-seam fastball away that I fouled off and I saw him shake on the pitch that I got the base hit on, so I just kind of guessed fastball away again," Longoria said. "With the walk and the runner on, that four-hole was open and it just gave me enough room."Official scorer Dave Perkins, a retired Toronto Star writer working just his third game, wasted no time in making the call."I won't lose any sleep over it. That's a base hit all the way," Perkins said.A disconsolate Hill needed time to cool off before facing reporters."Did everything I could, couldn't come up with it," Hill said. "Wish I could have gotten an error or something for it. Unfortunately that's just the way it is."Morrow was drifting toward first base, saw the ball get loose and sagged a bit, putting his hands on his thighs. He then recaptured himself and started toward third base to back up the play -- quick thinking, considering the outcome of the game still hung in the balance.Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston came to the mound but never seemed to consider lifting Morrow from the game. Instead, Morrow promptly stuck out Dan Johnson swinging to end it."Cito gave me that chance to calm myself and refocus and say, 'Hey, I still got a chance to throw a shutout and get a 1-0 win and a big division sweep," Morrow said.Johnson said a nasty slider was Morrow's best pitch."He was throwing that slider at will. Either you were chasing it and if you weren't chasing it, he was throwing it for strikes," Johnson said. "He had real good action and it was coming out the same way his fastball was."Morrow got a cooler of water dumped on him by celebrating teammates after one of the most dominating performances in the year of the pitcher. There have already been five no-hitters this season -- including two perfect games -- and three others broken up in the ninth inning.Vernon Wells drove in the only run for Toronto before leaving with a dislocated toe, which happened when he made a leaping catch against the wall in the sixth inning to preserve Morrow's no-hit bid. Wells stayed down briefly before jogging slowly off the field.X-rays did not reveal any fractures but Wells will undergo further tests Monday."We were running in and I could feel it wasn't in place anymore," Wells said. "I was hoping it would pop back in as I was running in but it didn't, so they told me I had to come out."The Rays came close to being involved in their fourth no-hitter of the season, which would b... read more

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