As Austin Jackson hauled in the final out and the Seattle Mariners players rushed the mound to celebrate Hisashi Iwakuma's no-hitter, they celebrated baseball history. The 34-year-old righty no-hit the Baltimore Orioles at Safeco Field, letting Mariners' fans witness the fifth no-hitter in franchise history.

Iwakuma was brilliant over the course of the game, generating plenty of groundballs and missing bats. He struck out seven batters with three walks on 116 pitches. Iwakuma was just coming off a career-high 118 pitch outing in his last start. It was also Iwakuma's first complete game in his career. 

The fourth inning gave him the most trouble, when he walked two batters, but two strikeouts helped him avoid more trouble. Iwakuma ran into a little bump in the eighth inning, allowing a leadoff walk and getting into a 3-1 count with a runner on first and two outs. But he induced a double play to end the inning.

Kyle Seager made an excellent catch in the top of the ninth, grabbing a ball in foul territory for the first out. Manny Machado ground out to Seager for the second out and Gerardo Parra flew out to Jackson to seal the no-hitter.

It marks the fourth no-hitter this season as Iwakuma joins Chris Heston, Max Scherzer and Cole Hamels as the four starters to accomplish it. The Orioles have now been no-hit 14 times in the team's history, fifth-most in baseball history.

Iwakuma's no-hitter comes almost exactly five years after Mariners' ace Felix Hernandez threw the first perfect game in franchise history against the Tampa Bay Rays on August 15, 2012. Iwakuma becomes just the second Japanese-born player to throw a no-hitter, joining Hideo Nomo.

The Mariners won the game 3-0, with Jackson contributing two hits and a run scored and Franklin Gutierrez delivering an RBI double in the third inning, providing Seattle the only run they would need on the night.