TAMPA — Before Max Fried could actually lose his no-hitter, it was lost for him in the middle of the eighth.
As Fried jogged out to the mound for the bottom of the eighth working on a no-hit bid through seven innings, the official scorer announced a controversial scoring change to give the Rays their first hit of the day.
In the bottom of the sixth, Chandler Simpson had hit a ground ball off of first base that Paul Goldschmidt could not field cleanly.
The speedy Simpson busted it down the line and may have beat Fried there had Goldschmidt handled it, but the play was scored an error on Goldschmidt.
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Upon further review, though, official scorer Bill Matthews announced that he was changing the scoring to a single for Simpson.
The decision ultimately became moot minutes later, when Jake Mangum led off the bottom of the eighth with a line-drive single to center field.
Fried’s day ended two batters later, tossing 7 2/3 strong innings on two hits and two walks and leaving with a runner on first.
