If you blinked, you might have missed it. After 10 1/2 innings of play and nearly 3 1/2 hours, Ryan Howard ended Friday night’s game at Citizens Bank Park on one pitch.

Now that’s how you change a narrative. You show off another one of your gifted young pitchers. You watch that young pitcher flirt with history. And then you put a finishing touch on a game that will have fans debating how the thing went down at the end.

Had Adam Conley worked a quick eighth inning, Don Mattingly would have considered sending the young left-hander back out to try to complete a no-hitter Friday night. But to Mattingly, the decision to remove Conley became easy when it took the 25-year-old 16 pitches to get the first two outs of the eighth.

MLB.com introduced a new way to watch baseball during Friday’s Yankees-Red Sox game with MLB Plus, a data-driven online broadcast featuring Statcast and other advanced analysis.

Marlins left-hander Adam Conley threw a no-hitter for 7 2/3 innings, but reliever Jose Urena allowed a single to Jonathan Lucroy in the ninth inning and then three runs, before Miami hung on for a 6-3 win over the Brewers on Friday night in Milwaukee.

David Ortiz’s torment of the Yankees only seems like it will go on forever. In reality, the slugger is set to retire at the end of this season.

The rallying Brewers didn’t get their first hit until the ninth inning, but they made some history in the fifth inning of their 6-3 loss to the Marlins on Friday night.

The Blue Jays used four solo home runs Friday night en route to a 6-1 win over the Rays at Tropicana Field.

There was plenty of foul play in the press box at Chase Field on Friday night. Late in the game between the Rockies and the D-backs, a foul ball made its way toward the press box behind home plate. While most reporters scattered, one man, D-backs.com reporter Steve Gilbert, rose to the occasion.

The Mets scored 12 runs, including Yoenis Cespedes’ grand slam, in Friday’s third inning vs. the Giants, the most scored in a single frame in franchise history.

We’re not crying, you’re crying, who left onions out here?

The Rockies pounded D-backs starter Zack Greinke for seven runs on nine hits and chased the staff ace from the game after only four innings on Opening Day at Chase Field. The Rockies would like a repeat performance on Saturday.

Horses, bulldozers and nonexistent awards.

Matt Szczur has a rock on a shelf in his locker that he touches every day. It’s a reminder of a parable called “The Story of the Stone Cutter” the Rev. Rob Hagan, an associate athletic director at Villanova, taught Szczur during his days there. The message is to keep grinding, and good things will happen. And as he’s done every day, starting in Spring Training, Szczur touched the rock on Friday. And good things happened.

Can anyone say “best two-person Halloween costume?”

Cubs left fielder Kris Bryant left Thursday’s game vs. the Brewers with a mild right ankle sprain. He underwent an MRI as a precaution, the club confirmed the injury on Friday and said he would miss that day’s game against Atlanta, but that he would not need to go on the disabled list.

Every lineup, every day, as they are made public by the clubs.