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 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Hideo Nomo took a shutout into the eighth inning and Carl Crawford snapped a scoreless tie with a sixth-inning single to help the Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1 Thursday.
Nomo struck out seven and walked two before leaving the game after yielding a leadoff homer to Marco Scutaro and a one-out single to Jason Kendall in the eighth. The Devil Rays bullpen then protected a one-run lead to give the 36-year-old right-hander his 199th win in his career in the United States and Japan.
It was Nomo's seventh attempt to move within one win of the 200 victories he needs to automatically gain membership in the Meikyuakai, one of two Hall of Fame equivalents in Japanese baseball. He has 121 wins in 11 major league seasons.
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