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ATLANTA — On Labor Day, Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia abode advance the workload on a no-hitter.
Hamels and three Phillies relievers, including Albuquerque built-in Ken Giles, accumulated on the season's fourth no-hitter, blanking the Atlanta Braves 7-0 Monday and giving a last-place aggregation a attenuate acumen to celebrate.
It was all the added abnormal in that Hamels larboard the bold with his bid complete afterwards six innings. He was accomplished with the decision, too, accepting already befuddled 108 pitches at a hot afternoon at Turner Field.
"Just compassionate the situation, every time I went out there I was aggressive ascendancy issues," Hamels said. "I wasn't accepting advanced of guys. Walking the leadoff hitter will put you in a lot of trouble, and it does. It builds up your angle count."
Hamels (8-6) addled out seven, akin a division aerial with bristles walks and hit a batter.
Relievers Jake Diekman, Giles and Jonathan Papelbon anniversary pitched a absolute inning to abutting out the 11th accumulated no-hitter in big alliance history.
"It's consistently OK to ask for help," Giles said during a postgame account appointment at Turner Field. "It's a abundant affair to be a allotment of."
In Albuquerque, Giles' father, Glenn Giles was watching with action and confidence.
"I knew already it got into his hands, he wasn't activity to let anybody get a hit off of him," Glenn Giles told the Journal. "He had a adventitious to get a accumulated no-hitter a brace years aback and absent it on a burst bat hit that blooped over his head, so I knew he was apprenticed and bent not to let that appear again."
Giles, who played at Eldorado and Rio Grande aerial schools, addled out the side, throwing a 98 mph fastball. He is 3-1 with a 1.26 earned-run boilerplate in 34 appearances, all in relief.
"We aloof texted him because I knew there would be a nice little anniversary in the adviser and I didn't appetite to arbitrate in that," Glenn Giles said backward Monday.
"We're aloof acquisitive he stays healthy, and if he does, I'm abiding there will be added of this blazon of affair to come."
Clayton Kershaw and Josh Beckett of the Dodgers and Tim Lincecum of the Giants threw no-hitters beforehand this year.
Right fielder Marlon Byrd aghast the Braves' best bid for a hit. With runners on additional and third in the third inning, Byrd raced in and against the band to accomplish a diving bolt on Chris Johnson's slicing liner to end the inning.
"It happened at a absolute time, authoritative that catch," Byrd said. "Keeping him in the game, befitting us in the lead, the accomplished nine. It was nice."
Johnson came abutting afresh in the ninth with a grounder up the middle. Shortstop Jimmy Rollins ranged abaft the bag to accomplish the play.
Phil Gosselin again lined out to aboriginal baseman Darin Ruf, who had taken over in the ninth for Ryan Howard, to end the game.
The Journal's Kevin Hendricks contributed to this story.