Short games

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Mets games that have had fewer than 9 innings:

9/9/1962 (T, 6 innings)
7/14/1963 (L, 8 innings)
6/7/1964 (T, 5 innings)
8/11/1964 (W, 8 innings)
8/16/1966 (L, 7 innings)
8/27/1967 (L, 8 innings)
5/26/1968 (L, 6 innings)
9/2/1968 (T, 7 innings)
6/5/1970 (L, 8 innings)
4/6/1971 (W, 5 innings)
7/29/1971 (L, 8 innings)
9/13/1971 (W, 5 innings)
5/6/1975 (L, 8 innings)
8/6/1975 (W, 8 innings)
9/27/1976 (W, 8 innings)
5/8/1977 (L, 7 innings)
8/26/1977 (L, 7 innings)
6/21/1978 (L, 7 innings)
7/29/1979 (W, 7 innings)
5/30/1980 (W, 6 innings)
8/11/1980 (L, 6 innings)
4/15/1988 (W, 6 innings)
6/14/1989 (W, 7 innings)
4/30/1991 (W, 7 innings)
9/15/1992 (W, 8 innings)
7/2/1993 (L, 5 innings)
9/23/1995 (L, 7 innings)
9/25/1995 (W, 6 innings)
4/30/2005 (L, 8 innings)
5/11/2006 (L, 5 innings)

[HahnSolo]

Wow. Thought there would be more in 45 years.

This is only the fifth time a Mets game has gone official in five innings.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And Steve Trachsel last night got the shortest complete game in Mets history, with only four innings pitched. That sets a new club record, and a strange one at that.

[Elster88]

Interesting. So he does get credit for a complete game in the league record books?

Does Floyd get a CG shutout?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think so. The stats that have been posted indicate that Trachsel and Floyd both got complete games, and that Floyd got a shutout.

I guess that ruling from a few years ago about perfect games and no-hitters didn't extend to complete games and shutouts.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, about two per year during the Torre era, about one per year during the late Johnson/Harrelson/Torborg era, but then none for almost ten years, spanning both the Valentine and Howe regimes.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

I think Jim Palmer holds the (unbreakable) record for fewest batters faced in a complete game: 13.

One opposing batter hit a solo HR, Palmer got all the other batters out, the game was on the road, the other pitcher shut the O's down, and the game got rained out after 4 and a 1/2.