Nationals are no-hit for the first time by Phillies’ Michael Lorenzen
Before Wednesday night, before Michael Lorenzen took the mound at Citizens Bank Park and turned toward history, the Washington Nationals had gone 18 seasons, four months and eight days without being no-hit. They had switched stadiums, won a World Series and watched a journeyman become a cult hero with a children’s song about a family of sharks but had never been on the wrong end of a pitcher’s special night, never had to slouch at their lockers and talk about when they noticed the zero in their hit column. They had never been those guys.
But then it was Lorenzen, a right-hander for the Philadelphia Phillies, who finally did it, stacking one out on another as if he could not be bothered by history. The previous time the franchise now known as the Nationals was no-hit was 1999, when the ...
