Help the Cause!

[Edgy MD]

Mejia: 0-12
Gee: 0-9
Colon: 0-8
Wheeler: 0-7
Niese: 0-4
Torres: 0-1
German: 0-1

It's, like, the hitlessiest start for a pitching staff since the 70s or something. Not all has been in futility, though. Met pitchers have walked six times, four of them by Niese, including that bases loaded jobbie that sunk Hamels the other night. They have three of the squad's 101 RBI. They have also successfully sacrificed runners ahead on the bases six times.

Most impressive feat has to be that Colon only has six strikeouts, meaning he has put the ball in play twice. Go, Bartolo!!

[Edgy MD]

Colon grounds out in the lone appearance by a Mets pitcher at the plate last night, raising the staff's season-long batting drought to 0-43.

You're in Colorady! If you can't hit here, then where?! Help the cause!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Previously, the deepest the Mets ever went into a season without a pitcher getting a hit was 14 games in 2005. That year, Victor Zambrano was the guy who broke the streak, getting a hit on April 19.

The latest calendar date that saw the first Mets pitcher get a hit was 1995, when the season was delayed by a strike. Bret Saberhagen got a base hit on April 28, in the third game of the season.

Other years where the Mets went ten or more games before a pitcher got a hit were in 1997 and 2009.

Year	Game No.	Pitcher	Date
1962	2	Jones, Moford	4/13/1962
1963	3	Hook	4/11/1963
1964	2	Stallard	4/15/1964
1965	2	Spahn	4/14/1965
1966	2	Hamilton	4/16/1966
1967	2	Seaver	4/13/1967
1968	5	Seaver	4/15/1968
1969	7	McAndrew	4/14/1969
1970	5	Seaver	4/12/1970
1971	3	Koosman	4/10/1971
1972	1	McGraw	4/15/1972
1973	4	Seaver	4/12/1973
1974	2	Matlack	4/7/1974
1975	3	Koosman	4/11/1975
1976	8	Koosman	4/17/1976
1977	4	Seaver	4/12/1977
1978	5	Swan	4/10/1978
1979	1	Swan	4/5/1979
1980	1	Swan	4/10/1980
1981	5	Scott	4/16/1981
1982	7	Scott	4/14/1982
1983	4	Seaver	4/12/1983
1984	5	Leary	4/8/1984
1984	5	Sisk	4/8/1984
1985	1	Gooden	4/9/1985
1986	1	Gooden	4/8/1986
1987	4	Aguilera	4/11/1987
1988	3	Ojeda	4/7/1988
1989	5	Gooden	4/9/1989
1990	3	Fernandez	4/12/1990
1991	1	Gooden	4/8/1991
1992	4	Young	4/9/1992
1993	1	Gooden	4/5/1993
1994	1	Gooden	4/4/1994
1995	3	Saberhagen	4/28/1995
1996	7	Isringhausen	4/9/1996
1997	11	Jones	4/13/1997
1998	4	Mlicki	04/04/1998
1999	2	Watson	4/6/1999
2000	5	Hampton	4/6/2000
2001	3	Reed	4/5/2001
2002	4	Astacio	4/5/2002
2003	4	Cone	4/4/2003
2004	1	Glavine	4/6/2004
2005	14	Zambrano	4/19/2005
2006	1	Glavine	4/3/2006
2007	1	Glavine	4/1/2007
2008	5	Santana	4/6/2008
2009	13	Perez	4/21/2009
2010	4	Pelfrey	4/9/2010
2011	4	Young	4/5/2011
2012	2	Dickey	4/7/2012
2013	1	Niese	4/1/2013

[Edgy MD]

That's some good data crunching. You should send that one in to Cohen.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hereby give my permission to any Twitter users in the audience to tweet the above to Gary Cohen. Giving credit to the UMDB would be nice, but not necessary.

[Frayed Knot]

Probably too long to tweet.
Besides, we all know Gary drops by here so it's only a matter of time until he reads it on his own.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ultimate Mets Database Facebook page wrote: Twenty-seven games into the season, and the Mets have yet to have any of their pitchers get a base hit. This is the first time that the Mets have made it to May without a pitcher getting a hit. The longest previous season-opening drought was in 2005 when Victor Zambrano (remember him?) had a fifth-inning triple on April 19 in Philadelphia in the 14th game of the season.

[Zvon]

That list is a great piece a work. Thanks.

[HahnSolo]

'98 I don't think is right. Matt Franco had a hit in that game, but not John.

Great work though.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, John Franco went oh-for-Mets, despite most of 14 seasons with the team.

[Benjamin Grimm]

HahnSolo wrote: '98 I don't think is right. Matt Franco had a hit in that game, but not John. Great work though.

Nice catch, thanks. That was Matt Franco in the table, but the database incorrectly had him flagged as a pitcher. It's been fixed; the actual first Mets pitcher to get a hit in 1998 was Dave Mlicki, in the fourth game of the season.