2010: Fourth Consecutive NL East Title
After the 2010 season, Jayson Werth left the Phillies to pursue a more-lucrative contract with the Washington Nationals.
One of the highlights of the season occurred on May 29, when Roy Halladay pitched a perfect game, the second in franchise history.
The Phillies finished with a 97–65 record, the best record in major league baseball. In the NLDS, they swept the Cincinnati Reds, 3–0. In Game 1, Halladay's first career postseason start, he hurled a no-hitter, giving up only one walk. It was only the second postseason no-hitter in Major League Baseball history, and the first since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. The Phillies lost the 2010 National League Championship Series, 4 games to 2, at the hands of the San Francisco Giants, who went on to win their first World Series title since 1954, defeating the Texas Rangers.
Halladay was named the National League's Cy Young Award winner.
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