Fiers’ no-hitter followed one on August.

Before Saturday’s game, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said after the game that there was nothing suspicious about the way Fiers was pitching or the way the ball was moving.

Mike Fiers set the tone Friday with the first no-hitter of his career, the 11th in franchise history and the first at Minute Maid Park.

BOSTON – Kansas City hammered reliever Junichi Tazawa for four runs on six hits in the ninth inning to pull out a victory over Boston. Even now, I still think about it all the time. “This next month, I’m pretty confident that we will. We’ll all step up”.

“I talked to Stanton after that incident”, Fiers said. You have to pitch inside. “You feel the emotion of everything you’ve been through in your life”, he said.

“After I got that last out everything kind of hit me”, he said. “You find a way to get the energy and momentum”.

MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart and Chandler Rome quoted Astros manager A.J.

“I never thought it was over”, he said, according to a 2012 FoxSports.com article. “He earned every opportunity to finish that”.

No wonder he threw his glove right as the game came to an end.

Cole Hamels with Philadelphia, San Francisco’s Chris Heston and Washington’s Max Scherzer also have thrown no-hitters this season.

Acquired by the Astros at the trade deadline to help with their playoff push, Fiers was stellar in his first two starts for Houston. It could’ve been that; it could’ve been something else.

A day after flinging his glove in the air after the final out, Fiers was still enjoying an emotional high. “You don’t want to let anything drop out there”, Marisnick said. “Just go and get it”.

The Dodgers got Ellis to third in the 10th, but left him there. His control was a little shaky early, but he was able to get himself under control and stay on course to keep the Dodgers off their game all night.

Fiers allowed just three baserunners (all walks) while striking out 10 in his Friday night start against the Dodgers. Six Houston pitchers combined to throw one against the Yankees on June 11, 2003. Carlos Gomez is 6-for-20 with a home run against Kershaw, who is 3-2 with a 2.60 ERA in seven career starts against Houston.McCullers will be recalled before the game from Double-A Corpus Christi, where he allowed one unearned run over three innings last Tuesday.

Going into this season, Mike Fiers was known more than anything for throwing the fastball that shattered Giancarlo Stanton’s face.

It really does not matter what Fiers accomplished on the mound as a member of the Brewers. Houston almost tied the game in the sixth, but Carlos Gomez was thrown out trying to steal home with two outs. “It’s been really nice for him to step into this situation and done what he has so far”. Kazmir, who was ripped for six runs and nine hits in his last outing against Tampa Bay, has permitted 13 runs and four homers during his skid. Evan Gattis hit a solo home run to left in the sixth.

Ryan Howard had three doubles and drove in two runs and Odubel Herrera had two hits and scored twice for the Phillies.

Kershaw allowed seven hits and one run with 10 strikeouts in eight innings for his 10th double-digit strikeout game this season.