"Reds pitcher Edinson Volquez has one consolation, if small, as the losing pitcher to Roy Halladay in the Phillies' 4-0 no-hit win here Wednesday.

Consolation? Someday, Volquez will be a largely forgotten footnote in the baseball trivia world.

For instance, who was the losing pitcher when the Yankees' Don Larsen threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers (1956) in the only other postseason no-hitter?

(Answer follows later in this story. And yes, you could stump most baseball fans with that one.)

For now, Volquez realizes that he needed to be much better than he pitched Wednesday. Volquez lasted only 1 2/3 innings and allowed all four Phillies runs before being pulled.

Volquez said his arm felt fine, but he sometimes had trouble gripping the ball. The late-afternoon game was played in chilly, sometimes rainy conditions in the early innings.

"I had problems in the first inning, the feeling with the ball," Volquez said. "It was kind of cold and raining, a little wet with the grip. I couldn't control some of them, with the rain."

Volquez was a bit wild, walking two with no strikeouts. He threw 56 pitches, only 32 for strikes.

It was 4-0 when Volquez left, and the Reds had no chance against a man pitching a no-hitter."