7,433: First-pitch homer off Pedro dooms Mets no-hitter, Mets lose 4-2
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Well, it didn’t take long to get to 7,433.
Jody Gerut knocked Pedro Martinez’s fist pitch over the right field wall Wednesday night to give the San Diego Padres a 1-0 lead (2-0 after Brian Giles’ dinger two batters later) and advance our NoNoHitters.com count one more game.
The Mets lost 4-2, but Martinez and pitched well. He lasted 6 1/3 innings, giving up just four hits but he yielding three runs (only two of them earned) and three walks.
Rookie Daniel Murphy had a strong night, going 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.
The leadoff homer off Pedro marked the 49th time in the franchise’s 46 1/2-season history that a potential Mets no-hitter was broken up by a home run. In fact, Pedro did it in his previous start in Houston on Friday, yielding a leadoff homer to the Astros’ Kazuo Matsui.
See our updated No-hitters killed by first at bat page for more details on this and the 30 other instantly killed no-hitters so far this year.
The Phillies shut out the Marlins, so the Mets fall to three games back in the National League East.
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Sorry to nitpick, but I’ve got to correct two small pieces of info on the site: 1) Dwight Gooden’s one-hitter v. Cubs took place on September 7, 1984, not August (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1984/B09070NYN1984.htm); 2) Tom Seaver’s lost no-hitter with 2 outs in the 9th in 1975 came against the Cubs, not Padres: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1975/B09240CHN1975.htm. — (Done - Dirk)