![]() Sanchez greeted Ramirez coming off the field with a high-five and a slap on the rear. In the seventh and then whirled and threw to beat the runner by half a step. Ramirez ranged to his left to snare a grounder by Stephen Drew The Diamondbacks came close to a hit several times but were denied by a Marlins defense that ranks next-to-last in the NL. "To be on the other end is not fun," Byrnes said. The most recent no-hitter by a rookie was by Bud Smith of St. 16, 1986, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The longest gap previously was 4,015 games from Sept. Sanchez's performance ended a stretch of 6,364 major-league games between no-hitters. "Congratulations to him," Johnson said, after himself flirting with a no-hitter Wednesday night against Kansas City before surrendering a leadoff triple in the seventh. It was the first no-hitter in the majors since Arizona's Randy Johnson threw a perfect game to beat Atlanta 2-0 on May 18, 2004. "She was there," he said, his eyes wet with tears of joy. Sanchez pointed and thrust his fists to the small crowd, where his wife sat in stands. "The most special moment was his face and how proud he was - and exhausted," left fielder Josh Willingham said. Sanchez's teammates then hoisted him on their shoulders. "It's once in a lifetime for a lot of people." "That was a lot of bouncing," said Wes Helms, who caught Ramirez's throw for the final out. Players poured out of the Marlins dugout en masse and swarmed around the pitcher, with the jubilant mob collectively hopping as one between the mound and third base. "It wasn't going to get past me."īefore Ramirez even threw the ball, third baseman Miguel Cabreraīegan sprinting toward Sanchez and was the first to arrive with a hug. "The last groundball, I wasn't going to flub that," said Ramirez, another rookie. He struck out Conor Jackson swinging on a 1-2 pitch, got Luis Gonzalez to pop out to third and then retired Eric Byrnes on a sharp grounder to shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who fielded the ball carefully on one knee before throwing to first for the out. Sanchez finished it off in quick fashion in the ninth. He struck out six and threw 103 pitches in his 13th career start. One of four rookies in the Florida rotation, Sanchez (7-2) walked four and pitched around an error. "You never think that's going to happen." "This is the best moment of my life," Sanchez said. The 22-year-old Venezuelan brought the longest period without a no-hitter in major-league history to a close Wednesday night, benefiting from three defensive gems by teammates to lead the Marlins over the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0. Then he collected himself and, in this year of sensational rookies, finished up the greatest performance yet. This hitter is the last one,'" Sanchez said. ![]() For a couple seconds, the Florida Marlins' rookie MIAMI (AP) - Anibal Sanchez was standing behind the mound when the scoreboard caught his eye, confirming what he already knew: He was one out from a no-hitter.
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