Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers combine for season's second no-hitter

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Four Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers combined to throw the season's second no-hitter.

Walker Buehler, Tony Cingrani, Yimi García and Adam Liberatore combined to hold the San Diego Padres hitless in a 4-0 win for the Dodgers at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Buehler — a rookie and one of the team's top prospects — threw six innings of no-hit ball, striking out eight while walking three. Then Cingrani, Garcia and Liberatore pitched an inning apiece to complete the no-hitter.

This is the 23rd no-hitter in Dodgers history, and the first combined no-hitter in franchise history. The last no-hitter thrown by a Dodgers pitcher came during the 2014 season when Clayton Kershaw no-hit the Colorado Rockies.

On April 21, the Oakland Athletics' Sean Manaea threw the first no-hitter of the 2018 season in a 3-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.

This was the first regular-season major-league game to be held in Mexico since 1999, and the crowd was treated to history: The first no-hitter to be thrown outside the U.S. or Canada. It was also the 12th combine no-hitter in major-league history.

"I don't think I've ever been a part of anything like that. That was cool, man," Buehler told MLB Network following the game. "I threw on in high school, but I have up two runs in the first, so I don't think that one really counts."

Buehler was making just his third major-league start, and the 93 pitches thrown were one short of the 94 he threw against the San Francisco Giants in his previous start.

"I understand what they're doing, but that about as tough as it's been for me to be okay with coming out of a game," Buehler said.

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