ATLANTA – Zac Gallen pitched a one-hitter in a seven-inning shutout, Stephen Vogt and Kole Calhoun homered and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Atlanta Braves 5-0 Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader.
Gallen (1-0) allowed only Freddie Freeman's sharp single to right-center field with one out in the sixth. Gallen found out after the game that he wouldn’t have qualified for an official no-hitter in a seven-inning game. “It wouldn’t have counted, so that makes me feel better that it wasn’t actually a no-hitter anyway,” he said. “The complete game shutout, I guess, works.
That’s fine. We won. It really doesn’t matter. That’s the most important part.” Gallen, who finished ninth in the NL Cy Young Award voting last year, struck out six,