The Mets continued to show their inability to develop any positive momentum Monday night during a 7-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

John Maine looked shaky right from the start, and he was lucky to escape the first inning giving up just two runs. He lasted just four innings, giving up five runs (three of them earned), seven hits and three walks.

Meanwhile, on the no-hitter front, Aaron Miles singled to right off Maine in the first inning to advance the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,402 New York Mets games without a no hitter.

Starter John Maine took a no hitter into the fifth inning Wednesday as the New York Mets rebounded from two losses to beat the Seattle Mariners 8-2.

Maine no-hit the Mariners through four until Jeremy Reed led off the fifth with a single to right to advance the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,397 games without a no hitter. The accomplishment marks the 257th time a Mets pitcher has made it through four or more no-hit innings during their 46-plus years of existence.

Here are some updated numbers on Mets pitchers who have kept Hs off the board until at least the fifth inning, courtesy of Retrosheet. *

• 153 potential Mets no hitters were broken up in the fifth
• 64 potential Mets no hitters were broken up in the sixth
• 22 potential Mets no hitters were broken up in the seventh
• 15 potential Mets no hitters were broken up in the eighth
• 3 potential Mets no hitters were broken up in the ninth (all by Tom Seaver)

Maine scattered just five hits and two earned runs over six innings of work for his eighth victory of the season. Aaron Heilman, Joe Smith and Duaner Sanchez each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

David Wright drove in three runs with two homers to left, and Jose Reyes added a three-run round-tripper to right.

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The New York Mets rallied for fine runs in the second inning Friday night to overcome an early deficit and beat the Colorado Rockies 7-2 for the team’s second straight victory.

The Mets are back at .500 and now trail the first-place Philadelphia Phillies by just 4 1/2 games.

John Maine gave up two runs in the first but settled in to yield no more. He gave up just six hits over 6 2/3 innings - starting with an opening single to left by the Rockies’ Willy Taveras. That bumped our NoNoHiitters.com count to 7,392 New York Mets games without a no hitter and marked the 901st time a potential Mets’ no hitter was killed by the first at-bat (Click here for more details.)

Joe Smith, Pedro Feliciano and Aaron Heilman finished out the game to give Maine his seventh victory of the season.

The New York Mets rallied back with five runs in the eighth and ninth innings Sunday afternoon but fell one run short as the Texas Rangers topped the Mets 8-7 in the first game of a Fathers Day doubleheader.

After Ramon Castro hit a two out, two-RBI, pinch-hit single to cut the deficit to one, Damian Easley flied out to left to end the game.

John Maine lost his no-hit bid in the third inning when Rangers catcher Gerald Laird opened with a single to left to increase the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,387 games without a New York Mets no hitter.

The San Francisco Giants’ Randy Winn double to left off of John Maine in the first inning Wednesday to raise the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,378 games without a New York Mets no hitter.

The Mets won 5-3 on another solid start. Maine went six innings, giving up just two runs (one earned) and seven hits. Clutch hits from Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado provided the offense.

John Maine gave up a first-inning single to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ James Loney Friday night to push the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,373 (”73-73″) games without a New York Mets no hitter.

Here in Mets land, 73 is our third favorite number second only to 69 and 86! (I guess double-zero would place fourth, but that memory is a bit soured by that team across town.)

We passed 6,969 no no-nos three seasons ago, and if our starting pitchers continue to insist on giving up at least one hit each game we would pass the 8,686 mark sometime during the 2016 season (here’s hoping that the team isn’t wearing anything close to Mercury Mets jerseys by that time).

Continuing this off-course wandering into amateur numerology, I’m looking at New York Mets game number 7,396 as the franchise’s first no hitter.

Why? The number 7,396 is a perfect square of 86 (in other words 86 x 86 = 7,396), and clearly 86 is the luckiest number in team history. Sure ‘69 was great, but there were clearly greater forces at work in ‘86.

So when is game 7,396? If there are no rainouts in the next month, game 7,396 would be played June 24, 2008, against the Seattle Mariners at Shea.

Anyway, back to Friday night’s game. It ended in a 9-5 loss, thanks in part to a strong early relief appearance by ex-Met Chan Ho Park and a 4-4 outing by Russell Martin. Oh yeah, and a horrendous relief appearance by Aaron Heilman, who faced four batters in the eighth and gave up four hits and four earned runs.

On a more positive note, Jose Reyes went 2-4 to extend his hitting streak to 15 games.

The first hit off John Maine didn’t come until the fourth inning Sunday afternoon but it did a bit of damage. Rockies’ outfielder Seth Smith hit his first major league home run - a three-run dinger to deep right - to bump the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,368 games without a New York Mets no hitter.

Jose Reyes extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a third-inning single, but it was one of just four hits the Mets could muster during a 4-1 loss to the Colorado Rockies. The Mets dropped two games below .500 and now head home to Shea to face the first place Florida Marlins and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Tom Glavine beat his former team by retiring his last 17 hitters as the Braves beat the Mets in the afternoon game of a day-night doubleheader.

The Braves’ Yunel Escobar led off with a double off of John Maine to up the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,362.

The Washington Nationals’ Austin Kearns hit a second-inning single off of John Maine Tuesday night to put the New York Mets NoNoHitters.com count at 7,357 games without a no hitter.

Maine’s strong outing during the Mets 6-3 win earned him his fifth victory of the season. He lasted six innings, yielding just one other hit, one walk and one earned run to drop his season ERA down to 2.81. Maine struck out five.

Billy Wagner got his eighth save of the season and has still yet to give up an earned run this season.

Right fielder Ryan Church went 2-for-4 with a double, a homer and 4 RBIs. Catcher Brian Schneider went 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored.