Jonathon Niese threw the New York Mets’ 34th one-hitter in the team’s 48-plus-year history, as the Mets took Game 2 of a day-night doubleheader 3-0.
Niese threw the club’s 24th complete-game single-pitcher one-hitter, walking none in his outstanding effort. Out of remaining 10 Mets’ one-hitters, six were nine-inning winning complete-game efforts by multiple pitchers, two were eight-inning complete-game losing efforts by multiple pitchers and two were rain-shortened one-hitters.
We’ve got all of the Mets’ one-hitters listed on our One-hitters by Mets pitchers page.
For some great additional insight into Niese’s incredible effort, check out Mark Simon’s blog post on ESPNNewYork.com, 10 things to know: Niese’s one-hitter.
Niese told MLB Network Thursday night that his hamstring feels good and the time he spent on the disabled list earlier this season helped. He said the healthy hamstring improves his balance, and that helped him throw strikes.
The Mets, of course, still have never had a no-hitter. That possibility was killed in the second inning when Chris Denorfia led off with a double, moving our NoNoHitters.com count to 7,704 New York Mets games with no no-no.
The Padres took the day part of the day-night doubleheader 4-2.
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The MLB.com article says the Mets have had 26 complete-game one-hitters. How do they figure that?
Had a chance to recheck the 34 Mets one-hitters and here’s the proper breakdown (post has been updated):
Niese threw the club’s 24th complete-game single-pitcher one-hitter, walking none in his outstanding effort. Out of remaining 10 Mets’ one-hitters, six were nine-inning winning complete-game efforts by multiple pitchers, two were eight-inning complete-game losing efforts by multiple pitchers and two were rain-shortened one-hitters.
During Thursday’s post game show, Howie Rose wondered out loud how many of the Mets’ one hitters are otherwise perfect games. Last night’s was one of them, and Seaver’s broken up by Jimmy Qualls was another one. I can go back through the boxscores and check those games and report back. Anyone know of a way to get the info to Howie?
The only two near-perfect Mets one-hitters were the Seaver vs. Chicago on 7/9/69 and Niese the other night. Every other one had baserunners via walks or errors, with the exception of the two rain-shortened one-hitters in the 2007 season (Glavine 6/27/07 and Maine 7/29/07) which baseball would not recognize as no-hitters and perfect games.