The New York Mets have never had a no hitter, but Mets pitchers have reached the fifth inning without yielding a hit 269 times during the team’s 50 years of existence.
Most recently, R.A. Dickey reached the sixth inning on April 30, 2012, when Jordan Schafer broke it up with a lead-off single.
Here’s the statistical breakdown of the Mets deepest failed no-nos:
- 160 potential Mets no-hitters were broken up in the fifth
- 68 potential Mets no-hitters were broken up in the sixth
- 23 potential Mets no-hitters were broken up in the seventh
(Plus one in the ’69 World Series, when Jerry Koosman lost his no-no in the 7th on a Paul Blair single) - 15 potential Mets no-hitters were broken up in the eighth
- 3 potential Mets no-hitters were broken up in the ninth (All by Seaver)
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the site is hilarious but your math doesn’t add up! 157+67+22+15+3=264 times that no-nos had been broken up, not 263 like it says at the top of the page. good luck.
Thanks. We had forgotten to update the total after Gee’s long stretch.
“Most recently, David Gee in his major league debut reached the sixth inning Sept. 7, 2010 when Willie Harris broke it up with homer.”
Is that a typo, or is there a reason I’m missing for calling Dillon Gee “David”?
Yep, that’s a typo. Thanks.
So Tom Seaver is the ONLY pitcher in Mets history to ever take a no-no to the 9th…and he did it three times? (Curse you, Jimmy Qualls, Leron Lee, and Joe Wallis! Curse you!) “Tom Terrific”, indeed.
Before his 1975 act of perfidy, Joe Wallis was best known for coming to bat in a spring-training game that season, wearing the wrong batting helmet. (A switch-hitter, Wallis went up batting righty against the Oakland A’s, but he was wearing his LHB helmet, and the ear-flap was protecting the ear nearer the catcher, not the one facing the pitcher.)
“Maybe he’s expecting a sweeping curveball,” one press-box wag said, according Roger Angell in The New Yorker.