"Just a week after Derek Lowe made headlines with a DUI arrest, he set out to make news of another kind, a historic kind.

Lowe took a no-hitter against the Phillies into the seventh inning of 5-0 win Friday night, flirting with what would have been the second no-hitter of his career, before a blister on his right foot and Shane Victorino spoiled his plans.

Victorino singled to left to lead off the seventh inning in a flurry of back-to-back hits, and Lowe was gone. He left two runners in scoring position with nobody out in the seventh and the Braves leading only 3-0.

But the Braves' bullpen kept the shutout intact with no-hit work of its own. Eric O'Flaherty, Jonny Venters, and Craig Kimbrel retired eight of the nine batters they saw to secure the Braves' sixth win in a row.

"I was more mad at myself and my skin," Lowe said of his flinching in frustration after the Victorino hit. "You don't get opportunities like this very often, and I saw it. I was trying to do everything I can to trick yourself and say 'hey,' [but] I can see balls starting to get up."

Lowe threw a no-hitter with the Red Sox in 2002, but when his blister surfaced in the fifth inning, he figured it was only a matter of time before his bid ended.

"I knew there was no way," said Lowe, who is not expected to miss his next start. "My stuff was deteriorating at a rapid pace. This is about as mad as I can be for pitching good because you feel like you're in a good rhythm. You feel like you can make pitches when you want, and then it just. ...""