By Erwin Quiñonez
01 Apr 2024, 22:33 PM EDT
The Houston Astros’ rookie but experienced Dominican pitcher, Ronel Blanco, entered Major League history by throwing a no-hitter, the first of the 2024 season, to lead his team’s overwhelming 10-0 victory. about the Toronto Blue Jays.
Blanco, 30 years old, took the mound and relied on all the experience he had acquired these years in the minor leagues to make history in the Majors. He tied up a powerful Toronto lineup that has a name like Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who was precisely the one who delivered the last out, among others.
105 pitches, of which 73 were in the strike zone, were what the Dominican needed to cover his work of nine innings in which he also struck out seven opponents and walked two, one of them in the ninth inning, already when he had two outs on the board.
The work of Ronel Blanco was well supported by a quota of power with respective home runs started by the Dominican Jeremy Peña in the sixth inning, followed by Kyle Tucker in the seventh inning and complemented by his compatriot Yainer Díaz, who was also the recipient of this feat.
This is how you break a bad streak
The Astros came into this game going through an unexpected bad streak of four consecutive losses, all against the New York Yankees. However, they found the best way to get out of it, with a historic event, led by a Dominican pitcher with a rookie bill, but with a lot of experience in baseball.
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