Mets pitchers combine for 1st no-hitter of MLB season in win over Phillies

New York Mets starter Tylor Megill and four relievers combined on the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season, teaming up to throw a whopping 159 pitches and beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 Friday night.

With the crowd of 32,416 standing and chanting "Let's go, Mets," Diaz finished it off in style, striking out Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto in the ninth — all of them swinging.

"Team game," Megill said.

"I'm ecstatic. It's crazy," he said. "First one I've been part of."

The moment history was made. <a href="https://t.co/5YiV6WH5yT">pic.twitter.com/5YiV6WH5yT</a>

Mets pitchers combined to fan 13 and walk six.

Johan Santana threw the Mets' only previous no-hitter on June 1, 2012, when he struck out eight and needed 134 pitches in an 8-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets began play as an expansion team in 1962 and this was their 9,499th regular-season game.

Mets centre fielder Brandon Nimmo made the best defensive play, running to make diving catch on Jean Segura's sinking liner in right-center to end the third.

"It looked close," Megill said.

BIG time K for Big Drip!