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The man mountain, Justin Bour, breaks up Shelby Miller's no-hitter with two outs in the ninth

Bour breaks up Miller's no-hitter with one out to go

None of the first 26 Marlins batters could break Shelby Miller on Sunday afternoon. 

His opponent on the mound, the bare-handed Henderson Alvarez, couldn't sneak a ball through: 

Henderson Alvarez

Dee Gordon, hitting a league-leading .425 when the game began, nearly blazed his way to first base: 

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Giancarlo Stanton tried to blast his way into the hit (and run) column, but for once came up a bit short: 

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And Ichiro tried to leg one out before the otherworldly Andrelton Simmons made another of his incredibly common great plays: 

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Even the one walk that Shelby Miller handed out was washed away with a double play in the bottom of the second.

Needing only one out to complete MLB's first no-hitter of 2015, the 6'5, 250-lb, could-have-been-an-extra-in-"Pain and Gain" Justin Bour came to the plate. Hitting 10-for-23 entering the game, Bour flexed his enormous biceps at Miller's first offering and drove a ground ball single up the middle: 

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Not sure if it makes it better or worse, but Gordon followed with his own infield single that Simmons could only knock down behind the second-base bag. 

It's not all bad for Miller. While he didn't complete the Braves' first no-hitter since Kent Mercker's in 1994, it is his second "Maddux," a term coined by Jason Lukeheart to describe particularly effective and efficient performances where pitchers finish a shutout in under 100 pitches. The right-hander first accomplished it on May 5 when he needed only 99 pitches to shut out the Phillies. 

On Sunday, Miller required only 94 pitches, with 70 of them being in the strike zone, to dispatch the Marlins. Not only is this Miller's second Maddux of the season, he's the only pitcher to toss one so far. 

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