Jacob, you\u2019re on notice. I NEED a no-hitter this season. You\u2019re welcome to outsource this if you like, but it\u2019d be cool if it was you, another notch in your belt for that Hall Of Fame quest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all remember Johan Santana\u2019s no-hitter, obviously. Almost nine years ago. As of this writing, there have been 32 more. The New York Mets 0 since then is already below average. No Nohan post is complete without the writer\u2019s personal story, so I\u2019ll share mine. We were out to dinner at a hibachi place, Inatome in Valley Stream, for my mother in-law\u2019s birthday. As one does, I was peaking at the game via the MLB At Bat app on my phone, just checking in mostly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t think I even noticed the no-hitter until the 6th. Needless to say I was less and less invested in dinner. We left at the bottom of the 8th, and I listened in the car to Howie Rose. I remember intersections, waiting for specific lights, because I really wanted to focus and for some reason the anxiety I felt at each intersection as I deflected some of my attention to and from the road solidified these memories. I dropped everyone else off and sat in the car and listened to the last two outs, and then a bit of the aftermath, and then went inside and watched SNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s been almost nine years. It\u2019s time. That was a great night, but there was fun and lore around the Mets not having a no-hitter too, and now that we\u2019ve got one, I need more. Radio producer Chris Majkowski\u2019s \u201cNot Tonight Boss\u201d after every opposing first hit of the night was fun. There was a lot of talk about hitting the 8000 game mark without one, and the daily counting became a ritual. No-hitters are mostly flukey, given the nature of batted balls and how it\u2019s easy for them to just find grass even if they weren\u2019t particularly well hit. There was no shame in not having one, it was just one of those weird statistical quirks that makes baseball fun. Jacob deGrom\u2019s 15 strikeout game had two hits, one a soft hit that just found a hole, and a second that Brandon Nimmo probably should\u2019ve fielded. It was a more dominating game than Santana’s no-hitter. Game of inches as they say.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Padres Joe Musgrove pitched a no-hitter this year, meaning now EVERY team has at least one. It\u2019s time for the often pitching-rich Mets to start to rack these up. It doesn\u2019t have to be deGrom, I\u2019d happily accept one from any Mets pitcher or even a combined no-hitter! Those are fun too! It\u2019s 2021, the Mets rotation is stacked, and they need to start delivering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob, you\u2019re on notice. I NEED a no-hitter this season. You\u2019re welcome to outsource this if you like, but it\u2019d be cool if it was you, another notch in your belt for that Hall Of Fame quest. We all remember Johan Santana\u2019s no-hitter, obviously. Almost nine years ago. As of this writing, there have been … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2012-06-01-22.15.03-1024x768.jpg\")