If you had told me before the season that the sixth no-hitter of the year would be thrown on May 19th, I would’ve laughed and called you nuts. Yes, MLB deadened the ball heading into 2021, but based on the record offense of 2019-20, you’d have a hard time convincing me that hitters could be neutralized so rapidly.
Add on top the fact that no more than four no-hitters had been thrown in each of the previous five seasons — 11 total since 2015 at that — and that six would put us one away from the single-season record with less than a quarter of the season played .