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The New York Mets barely avoided another ninth-inning meltdown Tuesday night, holding on to beat the Houston Astros 6-5.
With a 6-2 lead heading into the ninth, the Mets handed the ball to Aaron Heilman, who let two runners reach base before giving up a three-run homer to Jody Gerut. Fortunately, Joe Smith and Scott Schoeneweis were able to each get an out to end the game.
Fernando Tatis lit up the offense with two homers for four RBIs, and rookies Dan Murphy and Nick Evans scored the Mets’ other two runs.
Starter Mike Pelfrey earned his 10th win of the season, going 6 2/3 innings while giving up two earned runs on nine hits. He struck out three and walked one. Pelfrey lost his no-hitter in the first inning when Brian Giles singled to center, advancing the NoNoHitters.com count to 7,432 Mets games without a no-hitter.
Man, am I thrilled to stumble across your website after regaling and boring my baseball friends for decades about the Mets no-no-hitter streak. Clearly this era will be coming to a close soon.
On the one-hitters listing, I must respond to Steve’s comment ripping into Ray Knight and his contribution to Dwight Gooden’s 1984 one-hitter (which incidentally took place in September, not August — fixed, thanks – Dirk): I too was at that game, and I too yelled and screamed at Knight for not having the common sense and decency to at least throw the ball away in an attempt to draw an error on that play, since it was obvious that Gooden was unhittable that night. Still, even I acknowledge that had to be scored a hit, whatever Rick Sutcliffe might say.
Question: do you have a posting or info on Tom Seaver’s lost no-hitter v. Cubs with two outs in the 9th (Joe Wallis got a hit off him)? That game frequently gets lost because it was 0-0 at the time, and so Seaver would have had to continue his performance in the 10th, and I don’t know if he finished the game or gave up just the one hit.
Thanks again for the website,
Mark Glickman
Oakland, CA