We are roughly a quarter of the way through the 2021 baseball season, and six no-hitters have been thrown (seven, if you count Madison Bumgarner’s seven-inning no-no, and I think it should be, but that’s a topic for a different day).
The record for a single season is eight, set in 1884, but I’m going to discount that because in 1884, the pitching distance was 50 feet, the pitcher stood in a “box” instead of a mound and it took six balls to register a walk. The current pitching distance of 60 feet, six inches was established in 1893, and since then the record is seven, set in 1990 and matched in 1991 and 2012.