Moore loses no-hitter with 2 outs in 9th

LOS ANGELES – San Francisco lefty Matt Moore lost his no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth inning on a soft, clean single by Corey Seager as the Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 in Major League Baseball on Thursday.

Moore’s try ended on his 133rd and final pitch, and he was immediately pulled after Seager’s hit plopped onto the grass in shallow right field. He missed most of the last two seasons after Tommy John surgery.

Giants center fielder Denard Span sprinted for two outstanding catches, including a leadoff grab in the ninth, to give Moore a chance.

Moore struck out seven and walked three to earn his first win for the Giants since they got him in a trade with Tampa Bay on Aug. 1. Reliever Santiago Casilla needed just one pitch to get the final out.

Moore nearly gave San Francisco an MLB record five straight years with a no-hitter, too. And he almost became the first Giants pitcher to no-hit the Dodgers since 1915, when New York’s Rube Marquard stopped Brooklyn.

In other games, Max Scherzer allowed two hits over eight innings and Bryce Harper had a two-run double as Washington avoided a four-game home-and-home sweep with a 4-0 victory over Baltimore.

Scherzer (14-7) struck out 10 and did not walk a batter. He retired 12 straight after Adam Jones’ fourth-inning double, and 21 of 22 before Mark Trumbo’s leadoff single in the eighth.

In St. Louis, Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright lost his glove trying to tag out Yoenis Cespedes and lost the game, too, when Alejandro De Aza homered and drove in five runs to give the New York Mets a 10-6 win.

The Mets led 3-0 in the fifth when Wainwright (9-8) and Cespedes were involved in a bizarre play.