\n\tIn nearly three and a half decades as a franchise, the Florida\/Miami Marlins have had six different pitchers throw a no-hitter. The first came on this day 30 years ago.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tLeft-hander\u00a0Al Leiter<\/a> needed 103 pitches to accomplish the feat at Joe Robbie Stadium on May 11, 1996<\/a>. Leiter allowed just three baserunners in the Florida Marlins\u2019 11-0 win over the Colorado Rockies.\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the first, Leiter needed just 10 pitches to work a 1-2-3 inning. The next time he took the mound, he had a big lead.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAfter Jeff Conine<\/a> drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the first to get the scoring started, Terry Pendleton<\/a> followed with a two-run single. Two pitches later, Charles Johnson<\/a>\u2019s three-run home run staked Florida to a 6-0 lead.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe biggest threat for Colorado came in the top of the second. Leiter walked Andr\u00e9s\u00a0Galarraga to open the inning before hitting Ellis Burks<\/a>. Leiter, however, bounced back by striking out Vinny Castilla<\/a> and getting Trenidad Hubbard<\/a> to hit into an inning-ending double play.\n<\/p>\n \n\tFollowing a two-run double by Conine in the bottom of the second that pushed the lead to 8-0, the double-play ball was again Leiter\u2019s friend in the third. Leiter walked Jayhawk Owens<\/a> to open the frame, but got opposing pitcher John Habyan<\/a> to bunt into a double play two pitches later. The Rockies never had another baserunner.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe rest of the Florida offense came courtesy of Pendleton. The third baseman extended the lead to 9-0 with a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the fifth before plating two with a double in the sixth.\n<\/p>\n \n\tAs the game went on, Leiter appeared to be getting better. He struck out Galarraga and Dante\u00a0Bichette on back-to-back 3-2 pitches in the seventh. As the contest went to the ninth, he was three outs away.\n<\/p>\n \n\tLeiter got Owens and Quinton\u00a0McCracken to each ground out on the first pitch of their at-bats in the ninth. After the count went full on Eric Young, Leiter got the speedy Colorado second baseman to swing through a fastball to complete the no-no and make Marlins history.\n<\/p>\n \n\tWhile the Rockies were held without a hit, the Marlins had 11. Pendleton and Greg Colbrunn each had three knocks. Pendleton finished with five RBIs while Colbrunn scored three times. Conine and Johnson finished with three RBIs apiece.\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe night, however, would belong to Leiter. In what would be his first All-Star season, Leiter threw the first no-hitter in club history. It came on this day three decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In nearly three and a half decades as a franchise, the Florida\/Miami Marlins have had six different pitchers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[13126,5,1816,778,58,4171,4,3519],"class_list":["post-696006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-al-leiter","tag-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-no-hitter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116555376660730471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}