N.L. Phillie pitches no-hit game

Kevin Millwood's gem was a 1-0 win against the San Francisco Giants.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Often overlooked and considered expendable in Atlanta, Kevin Millwood at last outdid his former Cy Young teammates.
Millwood pitched his first career no-hitter, shutting down Barry Bonds and the NL's top team to lead the Philadelphia Phillies over the San Francisco Giants 1-0 Sunday.
Millwood, acquired from Atlanta last December, struck out 10 and walked three to record the ninth no-hitter in team history.
On anniversary
His gem came on the first anniversary of the last no-hitter in the majors, by Boston's Derek Lowe against Tampa Bay.
"Every pitcher's goal is to throw one. I was probably as nervous as I've ever been," said Millwood, traded for catcher Johnny Estrada in a cost-cutting move by the Braves.
"It was one of those special days, and I don't plan on doing it every time out, but it was a lot of fun."
Millwood used several variations of his fastball and just enough off-speed pitches to keep Bonds and the other Giants' hitters off-balance throughout the afternoon -- and kept the crowd of 40,016 cheering at Veterans Stadium.
"My fastball was the flavor of the day," said Millwood, who threw it on 81 of his 108 pitches. "The fans were great, they were loud and on their feet. When I got two strikes, it was so loud I couldn't hear myself think. That made me more nervous."
Millwood retired Bonds three times, striking out the single-season home-run king in the seventh looking at a 91 mph fastball. Bonds hit a long drive to right that Bobby Abreu caught near the wall in the fourth.
Marquis Grissom came the closest to getting a hit, but center fielder Ricky Ledee raced back and made a leaping one-handed catch on his hard liner to right-center to start the seventh.
"I was just praying that Ricky would make a great play and he did," Millwood said.
Final out
Ledee homered for the game's only run and also caught the final out.
Jose Cruz Jr. nearly homered in the second, but his long fly hooked outside the right-field foul pole.
"He threw a great game," Cruz said. "He kept pumping them up there."
Grissom hit a routine fly ball to Ledee for the final out of the game.
Earlier in the ninth, Millwood retired pinch-hitters Neifi Perez and Marvin Benard on grounders before walking Ray Durham on a full count. Millwood retired 15 straight batters before the walk.
"Not only was that unbelievable, it came against the best team in the National League right now," Phillies manager Larry Bowa said. "To do it in a 1-0 game makes it more special."