PHILADELPHIA — Phillies right-hander Michael Lorenzen, a trade-deadline acquisition by way of Philadelphia, threw MLB’s fourth no-hitter of the season Wednesday towards the Washington Nationals.

He struck out 5 and walked 4 in Philadelphia’s 7-0 victory, throwing a career-high 124 pitches, 76 of that have been for moves. His 124 pitches are essentially the most in a solo no-hitter since Mike Fiers’ 131 in 2019.

Lorenzen, 31, used to be an All-Celebrity this season for Detroit ahead of the Phillies got him on the commerce time limit for a minor leaguer. He promptly threw a season-high 8 innings of two-run ball in his Phillies debut closing hour, and is the fourth pitcher over the era 30 seasons to throw a no-hitter inside his first two video games pitched for a franchise.

Lorenzen spent a lot of his profession as a reliever for the Cincinnati Reds, however he’s been solely a starter for the Tigers and Los Angeles Angels the era couple seasons. Earlier than Wednesday, his earlier profession majestic for pitches thrown in a sport used to be 107, on April 29, 2015, towards the Milwaukee Brewers.

The family of 30,406 stood and cheered when Lorenzen retired CJ Abrams on a flyball to finish the 8th. He sat ailing all 3 batters within the body on flyballs to the outfield.

It used to be the second one no-hitter stuck by way of J.T. Realmuto, who used to be at the back of the dish for Edinson Vólquez’s no-hitter on June 3, 2017, with the Marlins.

The Phillies now have 14 no-hitters in franchise historical past (13 solo, 1 mixed), the closing ahead of Lorenzen authored by way of Cole Hamels in 2015. A kind of no-hitters got here towards the Expos in 1991, by way of Tommy Greene.

Since opening in 2004, Voters Reserve Terrain had best discoverable the Phillies throw one no-hitter ahead of Wednesday: Roy Halladay within the 2010 postseason.

The closing no-hitter thrown towards the Nationals used to be David Cone’s highest sport with the Untouched York Yankees on July 18, 1999. The franchise had now not been no-hit since transferring to Washington in 2005, and had the longest energetic streak of any franchise with out being no-hit.

Previous this future, Houston’s Framber Valdez threw a no-hitter towards Cleveland on Aug. 1. Yankees right-hander Domingo German pitched an ideal sport at Oakland on June 28, and Matt Manning, Alex Lange and Jason Foley of Detroit threw a mixed no-no towards Toronto on July 8.

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