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Braxton Garrett delivered the performance of a baseball lifetime.
Somehow, for Garrett and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, it wasn't quite enough.
In an early candidate for strangest game of the season in Triple-A, Garrett pitched eight innings of no-hit baseball, but Jacksonville went down to a 2-0 defeat against the Gwinnett Stripers on April 21 at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville, Ga.
The Stripers threw a combined one-hitter of their own, with 4 1/3 innings from Spencer Strider, 1 2/3 from Victor Mederos (1-0), two from Javy Guerra and one from Rolddy Munoz.
The game's only hit belonged to Jumbo Shrimp catcher Joe Mack in the top of the fourth, but he was left on base after two strikeouts and a foul pop fly. Jacksonville batters struck out 13 times on the night, dropping the 2025 International League champions back to .500.
Because the host Stripers carried a lead into the bottom of the ninth and thus did not have to bat, Jacksonville only pitched eight innings, so Garrett's performance does not hold official no-hitter status under MLB statistical conventions. Nonetheless, he became the franchise's first pitcher to throw a solo no-hitter of eight innings or more since Kevin Mobley on Aug. 3, 2000 against the Tennessee Smokies in the Double-A Southern League.
Gwinnett (14-8) scored both of its runs in the sixth, without needing a hit.
Garrett hit both Brewer Hicklen and Jim Jarvis with pitches to start the inning. Hicklen scored after a wild pitch and a Garrett error on a pickoff attempt, and after Sean Murphy struck out, Nacho Alvarez Jr. hit a sacrifice fly to right that scored Jarvis for the second run.
Garrett (0-1) finished with no hits allowed, two runs (one earned), three walks and six strikeouts. A Miami Marlins starter in 2023 and 2024 before an arm injury, he is still seeking his first Jumbo Shrimp win in 2026 despite an 0.77 ERA.
The Jumbo Shrimp most recently achieved an official no-hitter on June 27, 2025, when Anderson Pilar, Matt Pushard, Christian Roa and George Soriano combined to no-hit the Nashville Sounds, 15-3.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp lose Braxton Garrett no-hitter