Five Mets team for no-hitter to defeat 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 visiting Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 Friday night.

Megill was pulled after five innings and 88 pitches. The bullpen took over from there, with Drew Smith, Joely Rodríguez, Seth Lugo and Edwin Díaz completing the second no-hitter in Mets history.

Díaz finished it off in style, striking out Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto in the ninth. 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.

Mets center 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.

A season ago, there were a record nine nohitters in the majors.

Last weekend, six Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined to carry a no-hit bid into the 10th inning of a scoreless game against the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox broke up the nohitter and scored twice in the top of the 10th but the Rays came back to win 3-2. By official MLB rules, it did not count as a no-hitter because Rays pitchers didn't end the game allowing no hits.

This was the first no-hitter against the Phillies since Josh Beckett pitched one for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2014.

PADRES 7, PIRATES 3 >> Ha-Seong Kim and Jake Cronenworth homered, and Yu Darvish pitched six effective innings as San Diego won its fourth in a row with a victory at Pittsburgh.

Kim hit a two-run home run in the second to tie the game at 2.

Darvish (2-1) allowed three runs and eight hits while striking out five and walking one. RAYS 6, TWINS 1 >> Josh Lowe and Mike Zunino homered, Corey Kluber gave up one hit in six innings and host Tampa Bay halted Minnesota's seven-game winning streak.

Lowe's first career homer capped a four-run first off Twins starter Dylan Bundy. Zunino's solo shot put the Rays up 6-0 in the third.

Kluber (1-1) gave up one run on one hit and no walks in six innings, striking out six in his fourth start for the Rays.

Bundy (3-1), who had given up one run in three previous starts, allowed six runs on seven hits in six innings, striking out seven. MARLINS 8, MARINERS 6 >> Jorge Soler and Miguel Rojas homered and Miami won its sixth straight game, beating visiting Seattle.

Soler's homer in the first inning bounced off a column behind the left-center field pavilion and was measured at 468 feet, the third-longest in the major leagues this season.

Jesús Sánchez's two-run single with the bases loaded against Mariners starter Matt Brash capped a four-run second inning.