- After throwing the last no-hitter of last season, Cincinnati’s Homer Bailey threw the first one of this year blanking the bats of the San Francisco Giants. The last pitcher in MLB history to throw two no-hitters without anybody else throwing one in between was Nolan Ryan, Bailey’s hero.
- Bailey was assisted offensively by Brandon Phillips’ 6th inning 2-run homerun, although a Joey Votto sacrifice fly in the first inning gave Bailey all the offense he needed in the 3-0 win.
- Bailey becomes the second pitcher in two years to no-hit the previous year’s world series champion after Johan Santana did it last year. Bailey is now the 28th pitcher to throw multiple no-hitters. Ryan has a record 7 no-hitters, this is only Bailey’s second so he has a long way to go if he wants to catch the "Ryan Express."
Final 8 Set at Wimbledon
- The shockers continue at Wimbledon as Serena Williams, expected to breeze to another Grand Slam Title without a hitch, lost to Sabine Lasicki 2-6, 6-1, 4-6. Lasicki won the first set, but lost 6 in a row in the second and then the first games of the third set before coming up with her second wind and blistering the suddenly human looking Serena for only her 4th loss (out of 74 matches) in 2013. Williams, who turns 32 in September, said afterwards: "I think that I didn't play the big points good enough. I didn't do what I do best. I think I had a little hesitation, and that explains it."
- On the men's side, Andy Murray faced a 2-0 set deficit (the first two sets he'd lost for this entire tournament) against Fernando Verdasco but stunningly came back to win 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5. It was Murray's 7th such comeback, only behind Roger Federer's 8. It was also his 9th straight win over Verdasco, his only loss coming in their first match when Murray was 17.
- In the next round, Murray will play Jerzy Janowicz, the first Polish man ever to make the semifinals of a Grand Slam event.
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