Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner fields a hit during a baseball game against the Miami Marlins Friday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

PHILADELPHIA — The good news for Trea Turner and the Phillies is this: Even as the NL batting leader is out with a strained right hamstring that could cost him the rest of the regular season, Philadelphia’s shortstop expects to be healthy in time to play in October.

Manager Rob Thomson said before Aaron Nola tossed six shutout innings in a 1-0 win Monday night against the New York Mets the MRI results on Turner’s hamstring were “better than expected” and that the injury wasn’t as severe as the strained left hamstring that sidelined him for six weeks last season.

Turner, in the third season of an 11-year, $300-million contract, said he was confident he shouldn’t need more than the last three weeks of September to get back to full strength.

He can afford to rest.

The Phillies stretched their lead in the NL East to eight games over the Mets, pulling away in a race that seemed to tighten when New York completed a three-game sweep of Philadelphia late last month.

Flirtation with no-hitter

CLEVELAND — Slade Cecconi didn’t need anyone to tell him he was throwing a no-hitter. He found out on his own. Stealing a glance at Progressive Field’s giant scoreboard, Cecconi noticed something unusual — zeros. Cecconi took a no-hitter into the eighth before Kansas City’s Micheal Massey hit a single to spoil the right-hander’s bid to throw the majors’ first no-hitter this season and end Cleveland’s 44-year drought without a no-hitter.

That hardly mattered as the Guardians rolled to their fourth straight win, 10-2 and jumped the Royals in the standings. Cleveland’s last no-hitter was Len Barker’s perfect game in 1981.