Mets Ruin Braves No-Hitter In Soul-Crushing Fashion

It takes 27 outs to win a baseball game, and the Atlanta Braves had 26 of them en route to a no-hitter only for it all to come undone as late in the game as possible against the New York Mets on Saturday.

The Braves visited Citi Field for game 2 of a three-game series and for 8 and two-thirds innings not one Met managed to register a hit.

That streak started thanks to seven hitless innings courtesy of Braves lefty Max Fried. Joe Jimenez came in after that and in the ninth inning, Raisel Iglesias took the hill to hopefully close out what was surely looking like it would be the Braves' first no-hitter since 1994.

With two outs in the bottom of the inning, Iglesias just had to figure out a way to get the Mets' JD Martinez out and it was off to the visitors' clubhouse to celebrate a combined no-no.

Good stuff.

Of course, that's not how it turned out.

Ouch.

That's almost as soul-crushing as that sort of thing can go short of a walk-off homer. Although, it is more fun to see it happen with a legit round tripper than to see 26 and two-thirds inning worth of work end with some dinky base hit into shallow left field.

Still, for the Braves that's a huge bummer.

I mean, no one wants to say anything out of fear of jinxing everything, but with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, they had to have been icing some celebratory beers. Had to have.

Hopefully, they still had those beers, only they morphed from the celebratory kind to the "drown your sorrows" kind.

That wasn't the only hit that was allowed. After Martinez's dinger, Harrison Bader hit a single in Atlanta's 4-1 win.

For the Braves that extends their no-hitter drought which, according to CBS Sports, is the fourth longest in Major League Baseball.