NEW YORK -- For decades, the thought of a no-hitter at Shea Stadium or Citi Field seemed inherently outlandish. The expansion Mets went a full half-century without one, before Johan Santana altered history two summers ago.Now, no-hit bids are ubiquitous for the team from Queens. Jacob deGrom took one into the seventh inning Saturday. Jake Peavy did the same for the opposing Giants. But it was deGrom who prevailed in a 4-2 Mets victory. 
Half an inning after deGrom gave up his first hit of the evening, Peavy cracked for one of his own in the bottom of the seventh, when Daniel Murphy hit a one-out fly to left. Outfielder Michael Morse took his first step in toward the plate, hesitating just long enough for the ball to carry over his head for a double. The next batter, David Wright, also took advantage of Morse's defense, dumping a single into shallow left field as the left fielder paused again.Following a hit batsman, Peavy proceeded to give up a sacrifice fly to Travis d'Arnaud, an RBI single to Juan Lagares and a two-run double to Wilmer Flores, transforming his perfect-game bid into a comfortable cushion for the Mets.Thanks to some fine defense behind him, deGrom took his own no-hit bid into the seventh, ultimately demonstrating just how difficult it is to throw one. With two outs in the inning, deGrom's first-pitch curveball tumbled well below the strike zone, but Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval ripped it into the left-center-field gap nonetheless. Though Lagares gave it a diving effort, he did not come particularly close to catching the ball.Lagares made perhaps the game's finest defensive play five innings earlier, sprinting full speed after Brandon Belt's two-out drive in the second. Without breaking stride, Lagares caught up to the ball at the lip of the track, gloving it with just enough time to arrest his momentum before hitting the wall.deGrom finally cracked for two runs in the eighth on Travis Ishikawa's pinch-hit single, lasting 7 1/3 innings in total while striking out seven. It marked the first time in five games that he had given up more than one run in a start, though the rookie's ERA still dropped two-hundredths of a point to 2.77 while winning his fifth straight start.His legitimate no-hit bid was the Mets' second in the past two weeks, coming 11 days after Bartolo Colon took a perfect game into the seventh inning in Seattle.Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
Half an inning after deGrom gave up his first hit of the evening, Peavy cracked for one of his own in the bottom of the seventh, when Daniel Murphy hit a one-out fly to left. Outfielder Michael Morse took his first step in toward the plate, hesitating just long enough for the ball to carry over his head for a double. The next batter, David Wright, also took advantage of Morse's defense, dumping a single into shallow left field as the left fielder paused again.Following a hit batsman, Peavy proceeded to give up a sacrifice fly to Travis d'Arnaud, an RBI single to Juan Lagares and a two-run double to Wilmer Flores, transforming his perfect-game bid into a comfortable cushion for the Mets.Thanks to some fine defense behind him, deGrom took his own no-hit bid into the seventh, ultimately demonstrating just how difficult it is to throw one. With two outs in the inning, deGrom's first-pitch curveball tumbled well below the strike zone, but Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval ripped it into the left-center-field gap nonetheless. Though Lagares gave it a diving effort, he did not come particularly close to catching the ball.Lagares made perhaps the game's finest defensive play five innings earlier, sprinting full speed after Brandon Belt's two-out drive in the second. Without breaking stride, Lagares caught up to the ball at the lip of the track, gloving it with just enough time to arrest his momentum before hitting the wall.deGrom finally cracked for two runs in the eighth on Travis Ishikawa's pinch-hit single, lasting 7 1/3 innings in total while striking out seven. It marked the first time in five games that he had given up more than one run in a start, though the rookie's ERA still dropped two-hundredths of a point to 2.77 while winning his fifth straight start.His legitimate no-hit bid was the Mets' second in the past two weeks, coming 11 days after Bartolo Colon took a perfect game into the seventh inning in Seattle.Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
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