CLEVELAND –– When Cincinnati Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart ran onto the field in the bottom of the ninth inning with Wade Miley, he was thinking about how quickly his heart was racing.
“My heart rate – if I had a Fitbit on – was probably 180 beats per minute there from the warmup pitches on,” Barnhart said.
During the bottom of the ninth, Barnhart called six cutters and two changeups, which are Miley’s best two pitches. After Cleveland right fielder Jordan Luplow hit a ground ball to shortstop Kyle Farmer on a changeup with two outs, Barnhart was the first player to run to the mound to hug Miley and celebrate the no-hitter.