Kyle Gibson of the Phillies threw six perfect innings against the Nationals Friday night before allowing a hit. A friend of mine who is a Nationals/Expos fan takes solace in the fact that since moving to Washington, the franchise has not suffered being no-hit. In fact, the Expos/Nationals has the second longest streak of not being no-hit in the majors, dating back to 7/18/1999. The only team going longer without being no-hit is the Athletics, last no-hit on 7/13/1991.

TalkNats has a good history of the franchise tearing itself apart:

Those of us who are old Expos fans, sadly, are not new to this party at all. Watching Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, John Wetteland, Jeff Reardon, Andres Galarraga, Tim Raines, Tim Wallach, Larry Walker, Vladimir Guerrero, Pedro Martinez, Moises Alou and others leave town as their contracts expired routinely inspired us to hope in the next generation of Expos development. And over the years, our torment with Expos near misses, and stars who left town, eventually evolved into hope which was often rewarded with the Vladdy who followed the Larry. Until, of course, Jeffrey (the Psychopath) Loria left town after running the franchise into the ground and in a final coup de grace, essentially stole the minor league prospect database for the Marlins benefit.

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The article overall is positive, however, as they talk about the good prospects in the Nationals system that didn’t come over in trades.