How low can the Mets go?
Exactly this low. They can’t get fewer than zero hits in a game.
Getting no-hit Tuesday night by the Giants’ Chris Heston — did they think getting hit by pitches counted? — prompted some “sky is falling” moans in Queens.
But here are five reasons not to despair over the Mets’ new infamous entry into the record books:
1. It only happens once every two decades.
Though it seems like something that might happen to the Mets on a regular basis, they hadn’t been no-hit since Sept. 1993 (RIP Darryl Kile) — which was good for the fourth-longest holdout in the majors behind the Cubs (1965), A’s (1991) and Red Sox (April 1993).