Floyd loses no-hit bid, but wins, 7-0

CHICAGO -- Gavin Floyd’s concentration was on pitching, little else, when someone near the dugout let him know what was going on. He was working on a no-hitter.

“Not until like maybe the fifth inning. I didn’t realize,” Floyd said. “I was just trying to lock in with the mitt and some fan was like, ‘Yeah, you got a no-hitter going.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, thanks.’ ”

Floyd lost the no-hitter when Edgar Renteria singled with one out in the eighth Saturday, but the Chicago White Sox and their promising 25-year-old right-hander defeated the Detroit Tigers, 7-0.

“I could care less about the no-hitter,” he said. “I was just trying to go out there and throw strikes and get people out and that’s all I was focused on.”

Floyd (2-0) had never pitched more than seven innings in the majors. He left the game after Renteria’s hit on his 107th pitch, and exited to a standing ovation from the rain-soaked crowd.