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If there is one game that defines the start to the 2022 MLB season, it is the combined no-hitter five Mets pitchers threw against the Phillies on Friday. Twenty-nine-man rosters and 16-man pitching staffs gave us compromised baseball in April.
In that game, 33 of the 64 batters did not put the ball in play. Time of game was 3:18, which means a ball was put in play once every six minutes, 23 seconds against seven pitchers.