Remembering Greene's No-Hitter in Montreal

All eyes were on Tommy Greene as he snared a come back hit in the 9th inning to give him a No Hitter vs. the Montreal Expos on Thursday, May 23, 1991. The Phillies won this game 2-0 in Montreal behind the great pitching of Greene. It was only the 8th no-hitter in Phillies history which began in 1885 with the first one ever thrown by a Phils pitcher.

A Perfect Game is a special category of the no-hitter, it is accomplished when no batter reaches a base during a game, a no-hitter game can have base runners, in fact Greene's game had 7 walks issued but no one got a hit. Roy Halladay is only the 2nd Phillies pitcher in it's long history to pitch a Perfect Game which came against the Marlins on May 29th 2010, of course Jim Bunning was the first on June 21, 1964.

The batters in Greene's no-hitter vs Montreal:

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
Delino DeShields 2B	2	0	0	0	1	0	.234
Marquis Grissom CF	4	0	0	0	0	3	.290
Ivan Calderon LF	2	0	0	0	2	0	.303
Andres Galarraga 1B	4	0	0	0	0	3	.263
Larry Walker RF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.224
Tim Wallach 3B	2	0	0	0	2	0	.209
Ron Hassey C	2	0	0	0	1	0	.271
Spike Owen SS	3	0	0	0	0	1	.214
Oil Can Boyd P	2	0	0	0	0	1	.118
Eric Bullock PH	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250
Scott Ruskin P	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Barry Jones P	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team Totals	25	0	0	0	7	10	.000

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 2/21/2013.

Tommy Greene recently wrote his recollections of the great day he had in Montreal on MLB.com, the entire article can be found here.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

It was a day like any other day for me except it was a 12:35 p.m. getaway game in Montreal. I had been pitching out of the bullpen up to that point except for a spot start for Jose DeJesus because of back spasms. Mentally, I told myself I was going to treat this start like I treated my relief appearances. Be aggressive and go as long and as hard as I can. My thought was if I run out of gas they will put someone else in for me. Hold nothing back! ....