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Only Two Phillies No-Hitters at Veterans Stadium: Both Against the Giants

I was looking at Baseball Library on April 27 and came up with this interesting item which I only had time to post now, 4 days later;

On April 27, 2003, former Phillies pitcher Kevin Millwood who currently pitches for the Texas Rangers, pitched the first no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants‚ 1-0. Utility outfielder Ricky Ledee accounted for the only run of the game with a one out first inning homer off of Giants’ starter Jesse Foppert. Ledee’s homer was one of only 4 hits that Foppert and the Giants bullpen would give up for the game, although Foppert did walk 4 Phillies. The Phils lineup for that game featured Jimmy Rollins, Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell, Jim Thome and a young rookie named Chase Utley who played 43 games for the Phils that year.

Millwood walked 3 Giants, but struck out 10.

But the history doesn’t stop there. The Phils also recorded a no-hitter by Terry Mulholland on August 15, 1990. Mulholland’s was the first Phillies no-hitter in any Philly home stadium venue in the 20th century. Millwood’s no-hitter was the first, and so far the only no-hitter of the 21st century and only the second no-hitter recorded in the history of Philadelphia’s now demolished Veterans Stadium which was replaced by Citizen’s Bank Park.

In that 1990 game, the Phillies defeated those same San Francisco Giants, this time by a 6-0 score as Mulholland chipped in to help his own cause with a single and an RBI. Mulholland faced the minimum 27 hitters for the game, walking none and only missing a perfect game due to a fielding error by 3rd baseman Charlie Hayes.

Those 1990 Phillies boasted a line-up including Lenny “the Dude” Dykstra, Darren Daulton, Von Hayes, Dale Murphy and John Kruk as well as pitchers like Tommy Greene and Jason Grimsley (later traded for Curt Schilling).