IGT — 4/29/2022, PHA@NYM, Stop at Third and 43

[Edgy MD]

Buck Showalter: Somebody told me it's the first combined no-hitter in the history of the Mets. I mean, we're talking about 70+ years, right?



Reporter: Sixty.



Buck Showalter: Yeah, I knew that. I wanted to make sure you all were paying attention.

[Edgy MD]

First ever no-no thrown with a PitchCom assist.

[Edgy MD]

That's great. A reporter who sounded about 70 just said, "I'm from a newspaper in Puerto Rico, and this is my first ever time covering the Mets. Edwin, can you say something in Spanish about this game for all the fans back home?"

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: That's great. A reporter who sounded about 70 just said, "I'm from a newspaper in Puerto Rico, and this is my first ever time covering the Mets. Edwin, can you say something in Spanish about this game for all the fans back home?"

This is delightfully old-fashioned sports journalism.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Yeah that Nimmo catch was really the closest they came to a hit. Diaz was on point like I've rarely seen him.

The very first batter required a very solid play and strong throw from Escobar

[metsmarathon]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Afaic this one was better than the Santana one. No controversy

yeah, seriously. the beltran foul ball always felt like a little bit of an asterisk. i mean, i'm still going to celebrate it and love johan even more than i already did, but still.



on the other hand, a combined nono somehow seems like less of an accomplishment, despite i being more rare and perhaps more improbable.



whatever. i really don't care either way. both were great! glad we finished watching the latest moon knight in time for the 8th. oh, what a thing to behold!

[Gwreck]

Just a great night at the park. Crowd didn't really seem to be aware of it until the 7th when Rodriguez got the double play. But they got it in the 8th and 9th and it was a great atmosphere.



Nimmo's catch was very impressive to the naked eye.



McNeil's single was HUGE but Canha's double set it up first, also to huge appreciation from the crowd.



Alonso was PUMPED after his home run.



Drew Smith is firmly entrenched within the bullpen circle of trust.



Good to see Buck try to keep the no-no by putting in Smith and Jankowski for defense in the 9th.



LGM

[seawolf17]

Diaz was *something* last night. Even he said post-game that he was filthy. If he's pitching like that, he's unhittable.



This team is magic, friends.

[G-Fafif]

See one of you fellas in at least the quarterfinals.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Big win for the Post

[Edgy MD]

It's tough. Newsday objectively has the strongest, most arresting layout, but it doesn't really feature the principals, and in that sense, isn't really telling the story very strongly.

[G-Fafif]

Subject to change come TCD time, but I lean Post here for capturing the specific sense of occasion. The News's looks like a mockup produced for use in 1994's The Paper. Newsday, as it often does, tiptoes around the point.

[Willets Point]

Party of Five gets my vote. The others are underwhelming and generic.

[Edgy MD]

PARTY OF FIVE also gives us a 90s reference, which is at least 20 years younger than most back-page headline references.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/index.phpCast your vote!

[batmagadanleadoff]

See one of you fellas in at least the quarterfinals. https://twitter.com/anthonydicomo/status/1520384257419587585

I also like the Post cover, even if it's photoshopped. No other way to get all five pitchers in one shot. But I don't know how youse can rate the other ones. All I can see is the top half of one and the bottom half of another one. Reminds me of miscut baseball cards.

[G-Fafif]

Cluck on the images.

[Frayed Knot]

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Cluck on the images.

[whippoorwill]

I'm sorry.

This does not impress me

At all

[kcmets]

Well, it wasn't impressive per se.



But it's fun and newsworthy and has only happened 16-17 times in the

history of baseball. (I think, I'm too tired to fact check right now lolol...)

[Gwreck]

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I'm sorry.

This does not impress me

At all

[whippoorwill]

Yes of course!

But this is not a no hitter as we were raised to think of one!



Five pitchers in one game is an embarrassment not an achievement

[whippoorwill]

When I first read this thread and saw you guys were talking about this, the first thing I did was go to a box score and when I saw five pitchers I was flummoxed.

That's not very exciting.

[whippoorwill]

And whoever the opposing pitcher was is really not an issue is it?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I think it was a better game than the Santana one in lots of ways. The while specter of the no no-hitter thing draped that whole game, and made it all about moving heaven and earth to check a box, to Santana's ultimate detriment. And everyone knew they blew the call on Beltran.



This was just better

[whippoorwill]

Watered down pitching. I can't believe you guys have fallen for it.

Maybe my remote status has kept (?) me from it



Ask yourselves what would your dads or moms think of a five pitcher game? Let alone one that was ‘celebrated'.

They'd snort out their beer

[kcmets]

I haven't fallen for anything.



For the 17th time in THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL a bunch of pitchers

combined for a no hitter. And they did it throwing like 160 pitches with no

one getting a hit. 154 or something. That's off-the-charts crazy in itself.



Screw ma and pa, what happened is certainly worth talking about some.

It's not like we're throwing them a ticker tape parade.

[Edgy MD]

My dad would have enjoyed the life out of it.



He wasn't the biggest baseball fan, but he really dug riding a narrative, and this game had lots of 'em.



Diaz' sliders in the ninth were unworldy. I realize he's grossly consistent, but when that slider is dancing like that it's like watching peak Lawrence Taylor or Michael Jordan. It's just unfair. It's a man playing with boys.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Cluck on the images.

[Fman99]

It was awesome. Fboy and I listened to the last several innings with baited breath. We hugged when it ended.



We watched not a moment of it.



There were two coincidences at play here in my own personal life that I found noteworthy. For the second time, I enjoyed Howie Rose with the radio call. Despite the fact that I absorb most Mets content visually, in 2012 I was at a poker game and listening to Johan's performance on XM.



This past weekend we moved, and had no FIOS, because Verizon fucked the install scheduling up royally (I still don't have Internet at home yet). So once again, it was a radio call for me.



It reminded me of another momentous game, the June 30, 2000 Mets v Braves game, where the Mets came from down 8-2 to win on the Mike Piazza home run. I missed that one entirely, also, as it also happened on a day I moved. Another coincidence.