Mets' Nolan McLean makes baseball history with 1st-of-its-kind pitching night
The young righty was sharp in the Bay Area.
Mets' Nolan McLean makes baseball history with 1st-of-its-kind pitching night originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The New York Mets ' phenomenal right-handed pitcher, Nolan McLean, put together a great night in the Bay Area on Friday.
Pitching against the San Francisco Giants , McLean earned the win on the mound as the Mets rolled, 10-3. But that wasn't all. In the process, McLean put up a stat line never seen exactly like this before in MLB history.
Shared by the account Pitchergami on X, McLean had a unique combination of these five statistics: 5. 1 innings 1 hit allowed 1 earned run allowed 2 walks allowed 4 strikeouts MORE: Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy šØ PITCHERGAMI šØ Nolan McLean just threw a line that has NEVER happened in MLB history: 5. 1 IP | 1 H | 1 ER | 2 BB | 4 K NYM @ SF That's the 27th Pitchergami of 2026 and 1 of 83,251+ unique lines on record.
ā Pitchergami (@pitchergami) April 4, 2026 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't be getting pulled out of the game. But McLean had reached 93 pitches, and this early in the season, that meant his day was done.