Holmes flirts with history as Braves blank White Sox 2-0
Right-hander carried a no-hitter into the seventh and Atlanta scratched across two runs off Anthony Kay to snap a three-game skid.
Grant Holmes took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and the Braves beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Thursday to end a three-game slide. Austin Riley supplied the offense, doubling and singling to drive in Atlanta’s runs, while the pitching staff turned in a near-flawless performance to preserve the shutout.
The only scoring came in the third and seventh innings. Riley opened the scoring in the third with an RBI double that was lined into the left-field corner for a 1-0 lead. Atlanta added an insurance run in the seventh after Michael Harris II led off with a double off Anthony Kay; Harris II raced home when Riley followed with a run-scoring single off Huascar Brazoban. Mauricio Dubón had three hits and scored a run for Atlanta.
Holmes, a 30-year-old whose record moved to (8-5), walked three and struck out three in a six-plus inning, 94-pitch outing and retired 18 of the first 20 White Sox batters. Chicago’s first two baserunners came on a Colson Montgomery walk with two outs in the second and a Drew Romo walk with one out in the fifth. The no-hit bid ended when Andrew Benintendi lined a single to left with no outs in the seventh after a leadoff walk to Miguel Vargas; Holmes was relieved by Didier Fuentes, who struck out the side and stranded two. Dylan Lee worked a perfect eighth and Raisel Iglesias tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for his 26th save to complete a one-hitter. White Sox starter Anthony Kay (9-6) yielded two runs on five hits in six-plus innings, walking one and striking out six, and Chicago has dropped three of four. Holmes has never pitched a complete game in the majors; his longest outing was 7 2/3 innings on April 14, 2025, in an 8-4 win over Toronto, and he spent 10 years in the minors before making his major league debut on June 16, 2024, with the Braves.