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8,019 games without a no-hitter — and then Johan Santana, June 1, 2012. The whole historic night kept on one scorecard.
Mets — Johan Santana's No-Hitter · June 1, 2012
The New York Mets played 8,019 games before they had a no-hitter. Johan Santana threw the first one — and he did it pitching through a shoulder that would never be right again, throwing 134 pitches in a 8–0 win over the Cardinals. The whole improbable night reconstructed on a single scorecard, every pitch from the official record.
For any Mets fan: this is the one. 8,019 games. A scorecard of the night it finally happened is the keepsake worth framing.
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The game Mets fans waited 51 years for
The Mets became a franchise in 1962. They didn't have a no-hitter until 2012. Tom Seaver never had one. Dwight Gooden never had one. 8,019 games, and then Santana — a two-time Cy Young winner whose left shoulder had already been operated on, pitching on short rest, throwing more pitches than his surgically repaired arm should have managed.
He got a disputed hit call on a fair/foul ball overturned. He struck out the last batter. And New York had its first no-hitter. The scorecard from that night is a document of something every Mets fan carries — the long wait, and the specific night it ended.
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