NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 29: The New York Mets celebrate after completing a combined no-hitter during the 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field on April 29, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images) NEW YORK - New York Mets starter Tylor Megill and four relievers combined on the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season, teaming up to throw a whopping 159 pitches and beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 Friday night.Megill was pulled after five innings and 88 pitches.
The bullpen took over from there, with Drew Smith, Joely Rodríguez, Seth Lugo and Edwin Díaz completing the second no-hitter in Mets history.With the crowd of 32,416 standing and chanting "Let’s go, Mets," Díaz finished it off in style, striking out Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T.
Realmuto in the ninth — all of them swinging.Mets pitchers combined to fan 13 and walk six.Johan Santana threw the Mets’ only previous no-hitter on June 1, 2012, when he struck out eight and needed 134 pitches in an 8-0 win over the St.
Louis Cardinals. The Mets began play as an expansion team in 1962 and this was their 9,499th regular-season game.Mets center fielder Brandon Nimmo made the best defensive play, running to make diving catch on Jean Segura’s sinking liner in right-center to end the third.The Mets poured on to the field and mobbed Díaz after the final out as a graphic picturing the five pitchers with the words "BLACK OUT" showed on the scoreboard.It was the 17th combined no-hitter in history and the first since the Milwaukee Brewers’ Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader teamed up to no-hit Cleveland last Sept.