AP (Tucson) - Who says Tucson's Electric Park isn't pitcher-friendly? In one of the more notorious hitters parks in baseball, Huntingon's Matthew Glass tossed a no-hitter in an afternoon game earlier today. While always being a fairly solid pticher, Glass has never been known for his durability. In fact today was his first complete game - despite being a starter for almost all of his 5 big league seasons. "There was no way I wasn't going to make my way to the mound in the 9th inning" Glass said. "They were going to have to drag me off the field kicking and screaming".
Glass, who fell a walk and hit batter shy of a perfect game, improved his record on the young season to 3-4 while dropping his ERA 4.21 with the great outing.
The Cousins won the game 2-0, scoring on a bases loaded walk in the first inning and again in the 8th when recently-aquired 2B Bob Kennedy avoided a tailor made double play ball with his speed allowing a runner to score from third. "I knew Matt was pitching a whale of a game but I wanted to get him one more insurance run and make sure we pulled this game out for him", Kennedy said.
Tuscon pitcher Tony Garces came out to start the game but got the call early in the first inning that he was being traded to Cheyenne in a blockbuster deal and was immediatley removed from the game. He couldn't avoid the tough-luck loss however, as the walk he gave up to the second and last batter he faced ended up coming around to score the deciding run.
Tucson and Huntington will play the rubber game of their 3 game set tomorrow.
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