History was knocking Saturday night and an appropriately large Joe Robbie Stadium crowd of 31,549 was feeling it. So was Leiter. The man with the sizzling stuff, $8.6-million contract and mediocre career record gave this franchise its first no-hitter, lending beauty to an already attractive 11-0 Marlins victory.
The Panthers and Flyers have boiled the Eastern Conference semifinal down to "Russian Roulette." That's what some hockey folks used to call the high-intensity first-round playoff series back when it was best two out of three. Little time for adjustments and the next mistake could be your last until September.
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