padrescount7490The San Diego Padres have finished the 2015 season without a no-hitter, marking the 47th straight season they’ve missed that feat since joining the National League in 1969.

The Friars did notch one other rare feat this season, when Matt Kemp became the first Padres player to hit for the cycle on Friday, August 14, 2015 at Coors Field. The team had been one of two major league teams (the Marlins being the other) without a cycle.

Our 2015 poll of who will throw the first Padres no-hitter finished as follows:
Some other guy (27%)
James Shields (24%)
Andrew Cashner (19%)
Odrisamer Despaigne (10%)
Tyson Ross (9%)
Ian Kennedy (8%)
Brandon Morrow (3%)
Colin Rea (1%)

Categories: No-hitter news, Padres streak update, This day in Padres no-no history1 Comment

Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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