{"id":662630,"date":"2026-04-04T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:09:23","slug":"mets-nolan-mclean-makes-baseball-history-with-1st-of-its-kind-pitching-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662630\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Nolan McLean makes baseball history with 1st-of-its-kind pitching night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>&#8216; phenomenal right-handed pitcher, Nolan McLean, put together a great night in the Bay Area on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a>, McLean earned the win on the mound as the Mets rolled, 10-3. But that wasn&#8217;t all.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, McLean put up a stat line never seen exactly like this before in MLB history.<\/p>\n<p>Shared by the account Pitchergami on X, McLean had a unique combination of these five statistics:<\/p>\n<p>5.1 innings1 hit allowed1 earned run allowed2 walks allowed4 strikeouts<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/2-mlb-players-named-max-muncy-mind-blowing-things-common-dodgers\/23ff57d286098cef7421893b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 PITCHERGAMI \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>Nolan McLean just threw a line that has NEVER happened in MLB history:<\/p>\n<p>5.1 IP | 1 H | 1 ER | 2 BB | 4 K<\/p>\n<p>NYM @ SF<br \/>That&#8217;s the 27th Pitchergami of 2026 and 1 of 83,251+ unique lines on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pitchergami (@pitchergami) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitchergami\/status\/2040278594677620736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason this had a chance to be unique is that for most of baseball history, if a pitcher had allowed just a single hit through 5.1 innings, that pitcher wouldn&#8217;t be getting pulled out of the game.<\/p>\n<p>But McLean had reached 93 pitches, and this early in the season, that meant his day was done.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/meet-tyler-uberstine-red-sox-newest-roster-addition-path-mlb-impossible\/7f5fabf8bc017b19785adf15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This Red Sox pitcher traveled an impossible path to the major leagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mets&#8217; bats did plenty of work to make sure McLean got his first W of the season. Francisco Alvarez homered twice, and Marcus Semien left the yard, as well.<\/p>\n<p>McLean did allow one unearned run in addition to the one earned run. His season ERA in the early going is 2.61.<\/p>\n<p>And now he has this unique little slice of baseball history.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets&#8216; phenomenal right-handed pitcher, Nolan McLean, put together a great night in the Bay Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-662630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116346367344230358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}