Baseball United history as Mid East Falcons mark debut with combined no-hitter

DUBAI: Four pitchers combined for nine hitless innings as the Mid East Falcons launched into baseball history in their season debut.

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Three Japanese pitchers led the way for the Falcons. First, Kazuki Yabuta worked 5.0 innings to open the game, striking out six.

Then Yudai Mizushina pitched two innings with a walk and a strikeout. He was the winner of the TBS Plan D, a tryout competition created by Baseball United Chairman and CEO Kash Shaikh, and Tokyo Broadcast System, one of Japan’s largest broadcasters.

Shotaro Kasahara (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 1 SO) and Severino Gonzalez (1.0 IP, 0 ER, 0 H) came on for the final two innings, completing the first major baseball feat in the history of Baseball United season one: a combined non-hitter, to beat Karachi 2-0.