Chad Jennings has notes and quotes from Phil Hughes great game Wednesday night. Hughes was indeed thinking about the injury that occurred the last time he was working on a no-hitter:
When he got the first out of the seventh inning, Hughes said his mind immediately jumped to his near no-hitter in Texas, when he had to leave after 6.1 hitless innings because of a hamstring injury. “After I got that first out in the seventh I was just hoping I didn’t go down with something,” he said. “That was all I was thinking about.”
Hughes didn’t use his change-up in the game. Almost all his pitches were fastballs and cutters with a few curve balls mixed in.