The weird career of Mike Fiers

Mike Fiers threw a no-hitter -- the second of his career -- Tuesday night in Oakland, in a game delayed by an an outage in the lights in left field.

Fiers is 34 and has been kicking around major league rotations for nine seasons. And you never know what you'll get.

He has a career ERA of 4.11, and the no-hitter still left his career record short of .500, 57-58. He has never thrown 200 innings in a season and has only three times pitched enough innings to qualify for the ERA title -- and was traded in mid-season in two of those seasons.

In 2017, he led the Houston Astros in innings pitched, but he had an ERA of 5.28 and didn't see action in the postseason, when the Astros won the World Series. (He fell short of the 162 innings qualifying standard that year.)

No-hitters are relatively rare, and multiple no-hitters are rarer still. Just 31 pitchers, including Fiers, have more than one to their credit. He isn't high on the list of guys I would expect a no-no from, but he's done it twice.